Apollodorus Logisticus was a man of ancient Greece who appears to have been a mathematician, if as is usually supposed, he is the same as the one who is called Arithmetikos (ἀριθμητικός).[1][2]

Whether he is the same as the Apollodotus of whom Plutarch quotes two lines, is not quite certain.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 1.25, 8.12
  2. ↑ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 10.418
  3. ↑ Plutarch, Non posse vivi secund. Epic. p. 1094)

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Apollodorus Logisticus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 233.


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