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    Born
    about 460 BC
    Elis, Peloponnese, Greece
    Died
    about 400 BC
    Summary
    Hippias was a Greek contemporary of Socrates whose only contribution to mathematics seems to be the quadratrix - a curve he may have used for squaring the circle and trisecting angles.

    Biography

    Hippias of Elis was a statesman and philosopher who travelled from place to place taking money for his services.

    He lectured on poetry, grammar, history, politics, archaeology, mathematics and astronomy. Plato describes him as a vain man being both arrogant and boastful, having a wide but superficial knowledge. Heath tells us something of this character when he writes in [3]:-

    He claimed ...

    to have gone once to the Olympian festival with everything that he wore made by himself, ring and sandal (engraved), oil-bottle, scraper, shoes, clothes, and a Persian girdle of expensive type; he also took poems, epics, tragedies, dithyrambs, and all sorts of prose works.

    As to Hippias's academic