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    Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher born in 384 BC who founded the Lyceum and Peripatetic school of philosophy. He studied at Plato's Academy for 20 years, emerging with both respect and criticism for Plato's theories. Aristotle later tutored Alexander the Great in Macedonia. As a philosopher and scientist, Aristotle made significant contributions to politics, psychology, ethics, and used mathematics and the mathematical sciences in his treatises.

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    Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher born in 384 BC who founded the Lyceum and Peripatetic school of philosophy. He studied at Plato's Academy for 20 years, emerging with both respect and criticism for Plato's theories. Aristotle later tutored Alexander the Great in Macedonia. As a philosopher and scientist, Aristotle made significant contributions to politics, psychology, ethics, and used mathematics and the mathematical sciences in his treatises.

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    Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher born in 384 BC who founded the Lyceum and Peripatetic school of philosophy. He studied at Plato's Academy for 20 years, emerging with both respect and criticism for Plato's theories. Aristotle later tutored Alexander the Great in Macedonia. As a philosopher and scientist, Aristotle made significant contributions to politics, psychology, ethics, and used mathematics and the mathematical sciences in his treatises.

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    Aristotle’s Biography Report

    Aristotle was an Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist who is still considered

    one of the greatest thinkers in politics, psychology and ethics. He was the founder of the

    Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of philosophy and Aristotleian tradition. He was born

    in 384 BC Stagira, Chalcidian League. Both of his parents were members of traditional

    medical families and his parents died when he was young. 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. When Plato died he spent five years on the coast of Asia Minor as a guest of

    former students and his pioneering research into marine biology led him to marry his

    wife Pythias, with whom he had his only daughter, also named Pythias. Aristotle was

    summoned to Macedonia by King Philip II to tutor his son, Alexander the Great. When

    he returns to Athens in 335 BC, he couldn’t own a property, so he rented a space in the

    Lyceum. Like Plato’s Academy, the Lyceum attracted students from the Greek world and

    developed a curriculum centered on its founder’s teachings.

    Aristotle uses mathematics and mathematical sciences in three important ways in

    his treatises. Throughout the corpus, he constructs mathematical arguments for various

    theses, especially in the physical writings, but also in the biology and ethics. Aristotle's

    philosophy of mathematics provides an important alternative to platonism. His

    philosophy of mathematics may better be understood as a philosophy of exact or

    mathematical sciences.

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