Balanos Vasilopoulos

Balanos Vasilopoulos (1694 to 1760) was a Greek Orthodox cleric, author, mathematician, physicist and philosopher, regarded as one of the most influential Greek mathematicians of the eighteenth century. Born in Ioannina, then a major centre of the Greek Enlightenment, he studied under Methodios Anthrakites and became director of the Epifaneios Igoumenos school and then of the Gouma school. He expanded and reprinted his teacher's handbook The Way of Mathematics, the first mathematics handbook published in Greek under Ottoman rule. In 1756 he published in Venice a claimed solution to the problem of doubling the cube with ruler and compasses, which he tried to have recognised by Leonhard Euler and the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences.