MATHEMATICIAN, ASTRONOMER

Life
Timaeus was a Pythagorean philosopher from Locri, in southern Italy. Plato studied with him while he was visiting Italy, and later wrote a dialogue presenting Timaeus in discussion with Socrates. After the School in Croton was forced to close, Timaeus founded a Pythagorean School of his own in Locri.


Work
Principle works:

"On nature": Survives.

"On the life of Pythagoras"

"Mathematics": Lost.

"Cosmology"

Timaeus also developed a theory of the creation of the universe ("God created the earth out of matter; he made it in the shape of a sphere and caused it to move in a circle...").