Christian EguarasSonny KuoTed Chung

Jesly Escalante

• Plato was born to aristocratic family• As a child, his father died, and his

mother married Pyrilampes, an associate of Pericles

• Plato witnessed the death of Socrates• In 387, Plato founded the Academy in

Athens• This institution was considered as

Europe’s first university

• During the Renaissance, Platonic influence was a main focus at the Florence Academy

• In England, Platonism was revived by Ralph Cudworth and the Cambridge Platonists

• Influence spread to the 20th Century through people like Alfred North Whitehead

•Thought to be born on island of Samos•Born to Phythias and Mnesarchus•Left Croton in Southern Italy•Fled from Polycrates•Formed secret society, called themselves Mathematikoi•Followed structured life of common meals, exercise, reading, exercise, and philosophical study

• Was a lonian mathematician and philosopher • “father of numbers”• Believed everything related to math• Many legends – hard to tell what his life and

teachings were like• Influenced by Thales and his pupil Anaximander• Laws of nature could be derived from pure

mathematics.

Hippocrates

Hippocrates’ Life• Hippocrates was born in 460 B.C.

• He was referred to as the Father of Medicine

• Hippocrates taught others that diseases came from natural causes

• He observed many patients and recorded their symptoms

• He recorded illnesses such as pneumonia, tetanus, tuberculosis, mumps, and arthritis

Hippocrates’ discoveries • Hippocrates said that the body can heal by

itself and return to good health

• He said that a patient should eat moderate amounts of food and exercise moderately

• Hippocrates said that doctors should wash their hands before treating patients

• He said that the operating room should be well lit and look cheerful because patients in good spirit will heal faster

Hippocrates’ accomplishments

• Hippocrates was the first physician to know that medicine was science, not religion

• He wrote Hippocrates’ Oath, which every doctor to this day says

• To this day, many doctors practice what Hippocrates discovered many years ago.

Euclid

• Euclid- Was a Greek mathematician who taught at Alexandria, Egypt.

• He is known as the father of Geometry.• Euclid used geometry from what the Egyptians

had device• The book is called Elements consisting of 13

books about theorems Postulates and proofs.• It is considered one of the best textbooks ever

written

Euclid

• It was required to know all in this book back in the medieval universities such as

Oxford to get a master in Arts.• Not until the 20th Century the book stop being

so important that all educated• People had to read.• It is still thought very rarely as introduction to

geometry today• This book was proven instrumental not only in

logic but science today.

Bibliography

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27s_Elements

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid

• http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/glonumge.htm#Geometry

Works Cited

• Wikipedia. "Pythagoras." Wikipedia. 27 Sept. 2005 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorus>.

• O'connor, J J., and E F. Robertson. "Pythagoras of Samos." 1 Jan. 1999. School of

Mathematics and Statistics. 27 Sept. 2005 <http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html>.

Works Cited cont’d• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates

• http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hippocrates.html

• http://www.med.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/antiqua/texto.htm

• http://www.gardenofpraise.com/ibdhipp.htm

• http://www.gardenofpraise.com/ibdhipp.htm