A Great mathematician-Thales of Miletus

                                      Thales of Miletus

One day Thales a famous mathematician from Miletus was busy watching the sky. Unfortunately for him he didn’t know there was a pit before him, because he was deeply busy at what he was gazing up. Accidentally he fell into the pit.

A good old woman saw him and made this quote-

“When thou canst see a pit before you, how sure are we that thou canst show us what’s happeneth beyond.”

Thales was born in Miletus in 624 BC. He was among the first seven sages of the ancient Greece. 

He is known as the first Greek philosopher, engineer, mathematician and scientist that founded and contributed a lot to the geometry of lines and particularly abstract geometry.

For some few days now we will be discussing geometry.

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