Nicomedes
about 280 BC - about 210 BC
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Nicomedes was a Greek mathematician famous for his treatise On conchoid lines which contains his discovery of the conchoid curve which he used to solve various mathematical problems, including the trisection of angles.
Mathematicians born in the same country
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