Bryson of Heraclea (5th century)

Bryson of Heraclea was an ancient Greek mathematician and possible student of Socrates who contributed to solving the problem of squaring the circle and calculating pi. Plato was once attacked and accused of stealing many ideas for his dialogues from Bryson of Heraclea. Aristotle apparently criticized his methods and Bryson in turn upset Aristotle by denying the existence of obscene language.

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