Eudoxos of Knidos (c.408–355 B.C.) was the prime mover behind two major developments in Greek mathematical thought: the theory of proportions that overcame the crisis caused by the discovery of irrational numbers, and the method of exhaustion for the calculation of areas and volumes. (M 11709) _ _.
Discovered on 27-4-1998 in Prescott by Comba, P. G.