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        1. Hypsi'crates.
        2. Hypsicles.
        3. Page · Discussion.
        4. St Andrews Üniversitesi'nden Edmund Robertson ve John O'Connor tarafından oluşturulan ve yürütülen ödüllü sitesinden Matematikçi Biyografilerini aşağıda.

          5. Hypsicles..

          Hypsicles of Alexandria

          Quick Info

          Born
          about 190 BC
          Alexandria, Egypt
          Died
          about 120 BC
          Summary
          Hypsicles was a Greek mathematician who wrote a treatise on regular polyhedra.

          He is the author of what has been called Book XIV of Euclid's Elements, a work which deals with inscribing regular solids in a sphere.

          Biography

          Hypsicles of Alexandria wrote a treatise on regular polyhedra.

          He is the author of what has been called Book XIV of Euclid's Elements, a work which deals with inscribing regular solids in a sphere.

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          What little is known of Hypsicles' life is related by him in the preface to the so-called Book XIV. He writes that Basilides of Tyre came to Alexandria and there he discussed mathematics with Hypsicles' father. Hypsicles relates that his father and Basilides studied a treatise by Apollonius on a dodecahedron and an icosahedron in the same sphere and decided that Apollonius's treatment was not satisfactory.



          In the so-called Book XIV Hypsicle