Mathematics Timeline : Ancient Greece

Griechische Mathematik, Zeitlinie, Ereignisse

Around 600 BC

the Cretan poet Epimenides (Επιμενίδης o Κρης) is attributed to have invented the linguistic paradox with his phrase "Cretans are ever liars" - the Liar's Paradox. 2500 years later, the mathematician Kurt Gödel invents an adaptation of the Liar's Paradox that reveals serious axiomatic problems at the heart of modern mathematics.

(Απολλώνιος ο Περγαίος)( 262 – 190 BC) writes Conics. He introduced probably first the terms 'parabola' and 'hyperbola,' curves formed when a plane intersects a conic section, and 'ellipse,' a closed curve formed when a plane intersects a cone.

About 225 BC
Archimedes treatise On Spirals probably also date of discovery of the Archimedes Screw

Around 212 BC
Preliminary version

Carl B. Boyer, Uta Merzbach, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1989