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Some impression and highlights of his life and work follow: 1 2000, c G. Donald Allen Thales 2 Thales of Miletus was the first known Greek philosopher, scientist and mathematician. Some consider him the teacher of Pythagoras, though it may be only be that he advised Pythagoras to travel to Egypt and Chaldea.
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www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/masters/Greek/thales.pdf
www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/masters/Greek/thales.pdf
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Thales, an engineer by trade, was the first of the Seven Sages, or wise men of Ancient Greece. Thales is known as the first Greek philosopher, mathematician and scientist. He founded the geometry of lines, so is given credit for introducing abstract geometry.
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www.mathopenref.com/thales.html
www.mathopenref.com/thales.html
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Thales for Kids - the ancient Greek mathematician ... Thales was also an important mathematician. He figured out a way to measure the height of one of the Egyptian pyramids. He waited until a time of day when his own shadow was the same height that he was, and then he measured the shadow of the pyramid.
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www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/science/math/thales...
www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/science/math/thales.htm
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Thales is the first Greek mathematician we know about. Five Euclidean theorems which we still learn today were discovered and applied by Thales. Probably the most famous of these theorems is that a triangle inscribed in a semicircle is a right triangle.
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mathematica.ludibunda.ch/mathematicians13.html
mathematica.ludibunda.ch/mathematicians13.html
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Thales, the bginning of Western philosophy ... Thales was a mathematician rather than a philosopher, but in antiquity there was no differentiation between the natural sciences and philosophy; instead, mathematics, philosophy and science were closely related in the works of the early Greek philosophers.
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www.thebigview.com/greeks/thales.html
www.thebigview.com/greeks/thales.html
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Thales of Miletus ... Thales was the first known Greek philosopher, scientist and mathematician. He is credited with five theorems of elementary geometry. ... Honours awarded to Thales of Miletus; (Click below for those honoured in this way)
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www.gap-system.org/~history/Mathematicians/Thales.html
www.gap-system.org/~history/Mathematicians/Thales.html
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There is considerable agreement that Thales was born in Miletus in Greek Ionia in the mid 620s BCE and died in about 546 BCE, but even those dates are indefinite.
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www.utm.edu/research/iep/t/thales.htm
www.utm.edu/research/iep/t/thales.htm
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Thales was the first known philosopher, scientist and mathematician although his occupation was that of an engineer. He is believed to have been the teacher of Anaximander (611 BC - 545 BC) and he was the first natural philosopher in the Milesian School.
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phoenicia.org/thales.html
phoenicia.org/thales.html
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Thales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Thales of Miletus ( (pronounced /ˈθeɪliːz/ or "THEH-leez") , ca. 624 BC–ca. 546 BC), was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor, and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many,...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales
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