History of a Foreign Mathematician

ARISTOTLE
Osho Raj Sheelup • XII A • 40

Date of Birth • 384 BC

Date of Remembrance • 322 BC
(aged 81 - 82)
Birth Place • Stagira, Greece
[about 55 km (34 miles) east of
modern-day Thessaloniki,
Greece]
Country • Greece
About Family • Both of his parents were members of
traditional medical families, and his father, Nicomachus,
served as court physician to King Amyntus III of Macedonia.
His parents died while he was young, and he was likely raised
at his family’s home in Stagira.
About Education • At age 17 he was sent to Athens to enroll
in Plato's Academy. He spent 20 years as a student and
teacher at the school, emerging with both a great respect
and a good deal of criticism for his teacher’s theories. Plato’s
own later writings, in which he softened some earlier
positions, likely bear the mark of repeated discussions with
his most gifted student.
Achievements • He made pioneering contributions to all
fields of philosophy and science, he invented the field of
formal logic, and he identified the various scientific
disciplines and explored their relationships to each other.
Aristotle was also a teacher and founded his own school in
Athens, known as the Lyceum
Famous for • Together with his teacher Plato, he is
considered the “Father of Western Philosophy”. He was also
the private tutor of Alexander the Great. Aristotle wrote
about science, mathematics, philosophy, poetry, music,
politics, rhetoric, linguistics, and many other subjects. His
work was highly influential during the Middle Ages and into
the Renaissance, and his views on ethics and other
philosophical questions are still being discussed today.
Aristotle is also the first known person to formally study
logic, including its applications in science and mathematics.
Remarks • A soul, Aristotle says, is “the actuality of a body
that has life,” where life means the capacity for self-
sustenance, growth, and reproduction. If one regards a living
substance as a composite of matter and form, then the soul is
the form of a natural—or, as Aristotle sometimes says,
organic—body.

Dated : 3 June 2022 Marks: Teacher’s

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