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Bryson of Heraclea : ウィキペディア英語版 | Bryson of Heraclea Bryson of Heraclea (late 5th-century BCE) was an ancient Greek mathematician and sophist who contributed to solving the problem of squaring the circle and calculating pi. ==Life and work== Little is known about the life of Bryson; he came from Heraclea Pontica, and he may have been a pupil of Socrates. He is mentioned in the ''13th Platonic Epistle'',〔Platonic Epistles, xiii. 360c〕 and Theopompus even claimed in his ''Attack upon Plato'' that Plato stole many ideas for his dialogues from Bryson of Heraclea.〔Athenaeus, xi. ch. 118, 508c-d〕 He is known principally from Aristotle, who criticizes his method of squaring the circle.〔Aristotle, ''Posterior Analytics'', 75b4; ''Sophistical Refutations'', 171b16, 172a3〕 He also upset Aristotle by asserting that obscene language does not exist.〔Aristotle, ''Rhetoric'', 3.2, 1405b6-16〕 Diogenes Laërtius〔Diogenes Laërtius, i. 16, vi. 85, ix. 61〕 and the Suda〔Suda, ''Pyrrhon'', ''Krates'', ''Theodoros''〕 refer several times to a Bryson as a teacher of various philosophers, but since some of the philosophers mentioned lived in the late 4th-century BCE, it is possible that Bryson became confused with Bryson of Achaea, who may have lived around that time.〔Robert Drew Hicks, ''Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers'', page 88. Loeb Classical Library〕
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