EUDOXUS c.408 - c.355 BC Greek Mathematician Eudoxus of Cnidus, mathematician and astronomer, who studied at Plato's academy, and lived for some times in Egypt. He advanced subsantially number theory, and constructed a model of 27 spheres to explain the motions of the Moon, stars, and planets. |
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