When1: -400
When2: -350
Who: Platonists
What: mathematics school
Where: Greece
Detail: Platonists used inference, proof, deduction, and induction. They studied regular polyhedra, conic sections, prism, pyramid, cone, cylinder, perimeter, area, volume, and surfaces. Regular polyhedra are tetrahedron, icosahedron, and dodecahedron.
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