- Hippias - http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/hippias.htm
Brief article on this early Sophist, from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Hippias of Elis - http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hippias.html
Concise scholarly biography of this discoverer of the quadratrix, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics.
- Hippias - http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippias
Wikipedia entry on this ancient polymath, including some material from the 1911 Britannica.
- Hippias Biography - http://www.cnu.edu/academics/phil/carr/HippiBio.htm
Constructed from excerpts from various of Plato's dialogues which mention this Sophist.
- Hippias's Quadratrix - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Tim/Quadratrix.html
Some brief notes on Hippias' attempt to square the circle using this curve, "a pictorial representation of the irrationality of pi."
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