Hippias of elis biography of mahatma gandhi

Hippias of elis biography of mahatma gandhi.

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Born

about 460 BC
Elis, Peloponnese, Greece

Died

about 400 BC

Summary

Hippias was a Greek contemporary of Socrates whose only contribution to mathematics seems to be the quadratrix - a curve he may have used for squaring the circle and trisecting angles.

Biography

Hippias of Elis was a statesman and philosopher who travelled from place to place taking money for his services.

He lectured on poetry, grammar, history, politics, archaeology, mathematics and astronomy.

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Plato describes him as a vain man being both arrogant and boastful, having a wide but superficial knowledge. Heath tells us something of this character when he writes in [3]:-

He claimed ... to have gone once to the Olympian festival with everything that he wore made by himself, ring and sandal (engraved), oil-bottle, scraper, shoes, clothes, and a Persian girdle of expensive type; he also took poems, epics, tragedies, dithyrambs, and all sorts of prose works.

As to Hippias's academic