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• - Concise scholarly biography of this discoverer of the quadratrix, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics.
  
• - Wikipedia entry on this ancient polymath, including some material from the 1911 Britannica.
  
• - Some brief notes on Hippias' attempt to square the circle using this curve, "a pictorial representation of the irrationality of pi."
  
• - Constructed from excerpts from various of Plato's dialogues which mention this Sophist.