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Archytas of Tarentum
Archytas of Tarentum
c. 435 BCE–c. 347 BCE · Tarentum (Magna Graecia)
Archytas was a Greek philosopher, mathematician, statesman, and general of the early 4th century BCE, based in the Greek colony of Tarentum in southern Italy. A leading figure of the later Pythagorean tradition and a friend of Plato, he made notable contributions to mathematics, especially the theory of proportions and a famous solution to the problem of doubling the cube, and he is sometimes called a founder of mathematical mechanics. Much about his life survives only in later reports.
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The wealthiest and most powerful Greek colony of southern Italy—a Spartan foundation famed for its harbor, its Pythagorean philosopher-statesman Archytas, and its long resistance to the rise of Rome.
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