NICOMACHUS

Of Gerasa in Arabia, a follower of the Pythagorean philosophy, about 150 A.D. He composed an introduction to Mathematics in two books and a handbook on Harmony, of which only the first book is preserved entire, the second consisting of two fragments which cannot be said with certainty to come from Nicomachus. The first-mentioned work gives valuable information as regards the arithmetic of the Greeks in earlier times. It was translated into Latin by Boethius.