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5th-century Byzantine Greek architect and mathematician

Isidore of Miletus (Greek: Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Μιλήσιος; Medieval Greek pronunciation:[iˈsiðorosomiˈlisios]; Latin: Isidorus Miletus) was one of the two main Byzantine Greekmathematician, physicist and architects (Anthemius of Tralles was the other)^[1] that Emperor Justinian I commissioned to design the cathedralHagia Sophia in Constantinople from 532 to 537.

He was born c. 475 AD.^[2] The creation of an important compilation of Archimedes' works has been attributed to him.^[3] The spurious Book XV from Euclid's Elements has been partly attributed to Isidore of Miletus.^[4]

Biography

Isidore of Miletus was a renowned scientist and mathematician before Emperor Justinian I hired him.

Isidorus taught stereometry and physics at the universities of Alexandria and then of Constantinople, and wrote a commentary on an older treatise on vaulting.^&#