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Wikipedia entry on this ancient polymath, including some material from the 1911 Britannica. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippias » Hippias of Elis
Concise scholarly biography of this discoverer of the quadratrix, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hippias.html » Hippias's Quadratrix
Some brief notes on Hippias' attempt to square the circle using this curve, "a pictorial representation of the irrationality of pi." http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Tim/Quadratrix.html This category needs an editor
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