✒✒ Biography of Thales ✒✒
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Thales of Miletus was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Wikipedia
Born: Miletus Ancient Theater, Turkey
Died: Miletus Ancient Theater, Turkey
Notable ideas: Water is the arche; Thales' theorem; Intercept theorem
Main interests: Ethics; metaphysics; mathematics; astronomy
School: Ionian / Milesian; naturalism
Books: The Lives and Most Remarkable Maxims of the Antient Philosophers. [Translated from Fénelon's Abrégé Des Vies Des Anciens Philosophes.]
Children: Cybisthon
In mathematics, Thales used geometry to calculate the heights of pyramids and the distance of ships from the shore. He is the first known individual to use deductive reasoning applied to geometry, by deriving four corollaries to Thales' theorem. He is the first known individual to whom a mathematical discovery has been attributed.