World Mathematician Heron

Heron of Alexandria was a Greek Mathematician and Engineer who was born in Alexandria, Roman Egypt in c. 10 AD. He was famous for doing experiments. He spent his lifetime in Egypt learning, experimenting, and teaching Engineering and Mathematics. It is assumed that Hero used to teach at the Museum. He died in c. 70 AD.

Heron Books

Few of the books written by him:

1. Automata
2. Belopoeica, a description of war machines
3. Catoptrica, about the progression of light, reflection and the use of mirrors
4. Cheiroballistra, about catapults
5. Geodesia
6. Geometrica, a collection of equations based on the first chapter of Metrica
7. Geoponica
8. Mechanica, preserved only in Arabic, written for architects, containing means to lift heavy objects
9. Mensurae, tools which can be used to conduct measurements based on Stereometrica and Metrica
10. Metrica, a description of how to calculate surfaces and volumes of diverse objects
11. On the Dioptra, a collection of methods to measure lengths
12. Pneumatica
13. Stereometrica,

Contributions of Heron in Mathematics

Heron Contribution in the field of Mathematics:

1. He described a method for iteratively computing the square root of a number.
2. His work is now famously known as Heron’s formula. Using this formula one can find the area of a triangle from its side lengths.
3. He also found a technique for calculating the square roots and cube roots.
4. He also derived the shortest path algorithm.

Other Mathematicians like Heron

Euclid and Thales of Miletus, Ptolemy were also Greek Mathematicians, who has contributed like Heron.