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    Born
    about BC
    Caunus, Caria, Asia Minor (now in Turkey)
    Died
    about BC
    Summary
    Dionysodorus was a Greek mathematician who solved a cubic equation using the intersection of a parabola and a hyperbola.

    Biography

    There is certainly more than one mathematician called Dionysodorus and this does make it a little difficult in deciding exactly what was studied by each.

    Strabo, the Greek geographer and historian (about 64 BC - about 24 AD), describes a mathematician named Dionysodorus who was born in Amisene, Pontus in northeastern Anatolia on the Black Sea.

    The Dionysodorus we are interested in here is the mathematician Dionysodorus whom Eutocius states solved the problem of the cubic equation using the intersection of a parabola and a hyperbola.

    This was related to a problem of Archimedes given in On the Sphere and Cylinder. It was thought until early this century that the Dionysodorus to whom Eutocius refers, was Dionysodorus of Amisene described by