Leodamas of Thasos

Who is Leodamas of Thasos?

Leodamas of Thasos was a Greek mathematician and a contemporary of Plato, about whom little is known.

There are two references to Leodamas in Proclus's Commentary on Euclid:

"At this time [Plato's time] also lived Leodamas of Thasos, Archytas of Tarentum, and Theaetetus of Athens, by whom the

theorems [of geometry] were increased in number and brought into a more scientific arrangement. Younger than Leodamas was

"Plato, it is said, taught this method [analysis] to Leodamas, who is also reported to have made many discoveries in geometry by means of it."

and one in Diogenes Laertius' Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 3:

"He [Plato] was the first to explain to Leodamas of Thasos the method of solving problems by analysis."