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THEODORUS [OF CYRENE]

FACT SHEET

Birth

Theodorus [of Cyrene], was born in the 5

century around 425 BC,

in Cyrene Greece

Theodorus moved to Athens, Greece where he spent most of his life and was

certainly in Athens at a time when Socrates was alive.

Education and Career

Theodorus [of Cyrene], was a Greek Mathematician and a Pythagorean,

(a member of devoted followers of Pythagoras), and a pupil of Pythagoras and

Protagoras, but also a teacher and tutor of mathematics to Plato and Theatus.

Our knowledge of Theodorus comes from Plato who wrote about him in his work

Theaetetus

Sophist.

and the

He was distinguished in astronomy, arithmetic, music

and educational subjects, and is best remembered by mathematicians for his

contribution to the development of irrational numbers and it is this aspect of his

work which Plato referred to.

Circumstances of Death

Theodorus [of Cyrene] was a philosopher of the Cyranic School. He lived in

both Greece and Alexandria, before ending his days in his native city of Cyrene

where he died in 398

. He was condemned to die by being forced to drink poison.

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