Dionysodorus biography
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Dionysodorus of Caunus (Greek: Διονυσόδωρος ὁ Καύνειος, c.
Dionysodorus biography
250 BC – c. 190 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician.
Life and work
Little is known about the life of Dionysodorus. Pliny the Elder writes about a Dionysodorus who measured the earth's circumference, however he is probably the one from Pontus and different from the one from Caunus as Strabo differentiates between the two mathematicians.[1]
Dionysodorus is remembered for solving the cubic equation by means of the intersection of a rectangular hyperbola and a parabola.[2] Eutocius credits Dionysodorus with the method of cutting a sphere into a given ratio, as described by him.[3] Heron mentions a work by Dionysauras entitled On the Tore, in which the volume of a torus is calculated and found to be equal to the area of the generating circle multiplied by the circumference of the circle created by tracing the center of the generating circle as it rotates about the torus's axis of revolution.
Dionysodorus used Archimedes' m