Archytas
Sign in to saveArchytas (; ; 435/410–360/350 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, music theorist, statesman, and strategist from the ancient city of Taras (Tarentum) in Southern Italy. He was a scientist and philosopher affiliated with the Pythagorean school and famous for being the reputed founder of mathematical mechanics and a friend of Plato.
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Archytas was an ancient Greek mathematician, music theorist, and politician from southern Italy (around 435–350 BC) who is credited with founding mathematical mechanics and was associated with the Pythagorean philosophical school. He matters historically because of his influential scientific work and his connection to the famous philosopher Plato.
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- -430
- Died
- -345
- Works
- 5
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- Pythagore et la philosophie pythagoricienne
- Pythagore et la Philosophie Pythagoricienne
- Pythagore et la philosophie pythagoricienne: contenant les fragments de ...
- Prosōkratikoi
- L'educazione morale
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- Classical Greek philosophy
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Archytas (; ; 435/410–360/350 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, music theorist, statesman, and strategist from the ancient city of Taras (Tarentum) in Southern Italy. He was a scientist and philosopher affiliated with the Pythagorean school and famous for being the reputed founder of mathematical mechanics and a friend of Plato.
As a Pythagorean, Archytas believed that arithmetic (logistic), rather than geometry, provided the basis for satisfactory proofs, and developed the most famous argument for the infinity of the universe in antiquity.