He was born in the year 470 BC on the island of Chios and died in 410 BC. Hippocrates, began his career as a merchant but Aristotle has said that Hippocrates was not a very smart merchant. Hippocrates was cheated of his money by corrupted tax officials in Byzantium other say pirates robbed him.

Hippocrates was a brilliant mathematician and One of the greatest geometers of antient Greece. He moved to Athens around 430 BC. He attended lectures in his spare time and eventually became a teacher of geometry.

One of Hippocrates achievements is squaring of the circle or the quadrature. In Hippocrates attempt to square the circle, he was able to find the areas of lunes, certain crescent-shaped figures, using his theory that the ratio of the areas of two circles is the same as the ratio of the squares of their radii. Hippocrates proofed that if between a number and its double, two mean proportionals can be found that the cube can be doubled. This finding had a major influence and changed the attempts on duplicating the cube.

More of Hippocrates achievements can be learned here at the university of St Andrews: Hippocrates of Chios