Hero of Alexandria

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Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

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Knorr, Wilbur: Arithmêtike stoicheiôsis: On Diophantus and Hero of Alexandria, in: Historia Matematica, New York, 1993, Vol.20, No.2, 180-192 Influence Diophantus' work has had a large influence in history. Source: Internet

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