Life of Aristotle
Aristotle(384 DC - 332DC), the worlds famous philosopher, scientist and mathematician. Aristotle was taught by Plato and he was the instructor of the Great Alexander. Although some of his mathematics theorems are overturned, he still left us a series of definitions which exactly define what mathematics is. Nicomachus Aristotle lost his parents at very young age. He spent years within the Macedonian palace where he got touch with the Macedonian monarchy. Plato Aristotle by Francesco Hayez (1791–1882) In 384 BC, Aristotle was born in the stakira of Thrace. The city was a colony of Greece, adjacent to the rising Macedonia. His father was the court physician of Philip ii, king of Macedon, and from his family, he belonged to the middle class of the slave-owner class. At the age of 17, he went to Athens to study in Plato's academy for 20 years, until Plato died. Perhaps influenced by ...