Bion of Abdera ( el, Βίων ὁ Ἀβδηρίτης, ''gen.'' Βίωνος) was a
Greek
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Greece
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**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
of
Abdera, Thrace
Abdera () is a municipality in the Xanthi regional unit of Thrace, Greece. In classical antiquity, it was a major Greek ''polis'' on the Thracian coast.
The ancient polis is to be distinguished from the municipality, which was named in its hono ...
, and a pupil of
Democritus
Democritus (; el, Δημόκριτος, ''Dēmókritos'', meaning "chosen of the people"; – ) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe. No ...
. He wrote both in the
Ionic and
Attic dialects, and was the first who said that there were some parts of the Earth in which it was night for six months, while the remaining six months were one uninterrupted day.
[Smith, William. ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' (1870), "Bion of Abdera".]
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