Neoclides (Ancient Greek: Νεοκλείδης, romanized: Neokleidēs, b. about 420 BCE) was an ancient Greek mathematician. He was a younger contemporary of

Plato Plato ( ; Greek language, Greek: , ; born BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical Greece, Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the writte ...

and Leodamas of Thasos and himself served at the

Platonic Academy The Academy (), variously known as Plato's Academy, or the Platonic Academy, was founded in Classical Athens, Athens by Plato ''wikt:circa, circa'' 387 BC. The academy is regarded as the first institution of higher education in the west, where ...

. He also taught Leon. Otherwise, not much is known about him.

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