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Nicomedes

lived from 280 BC to 210 BC

Nicomedes was a Greek mathematician famous for his treatise On conchoid lines which contains his discovery of the conchoid curve which he used to solve various mathematical problems, including the trisection of angles.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Nicomedes/