What is "nicomachus"

Nicomachus, or Nicomachus of Gerasa, (; c. 60 – c. 120 CE) was an important ancient mathematician best known for his works Introduction to Arithmetic and Manual of Harmonics in Greek. He was born in Gerasa, in the Roman province of Syria (now Jerash, Jordan), and was strongly influenced by Aristotle. He was a Neopythagorean, who wrote about the mystical properties of numbers.

• Nicomachus (c. 60 – c. 120) from Gerasa, was a mathematician and Pythagorean philosopher.

Nicomachus may also refer to:

• Nicomachus (scribe) (c. 410 BC) a scribe tasked with publishing the laws of Solon
• Nicomachus of Thebes (4th century BC), ancient Greek painter
• Nicomachus (father of Aristotle) (c. 375 BC), father of the philosopher Aristotle
• Nicomachus (son of Aristotle) (c. 325 BC), son of the philosopher Aristotle
• Nicomachus of Macedon eromenos of Dimnus, conspirator against Alexander the Great
• Caius Asinius Nicomachus Julianus (born c. 185) Proconsul in Asia in the 3rd century

Nicomachus (; fl. c. 325 BC) was the son of Aristotle.

Nicomachus (; fl. c. 375 BC) was the father of Aristotle.

The Suda states that he was a doctor descended from Nicomachus, son of Machaon the son of Asclepius. Greenhill notes he had another son named Arimnestus, and a daughter named Arimneste, by his wife Phaestis, or Phaestias, who was descended from Asclepius as well. He was a native of Stageira, and the friend and physician of Amyntas III, king of Macedonia, 393-369 BC.

Aristotle's son was also called Nicomachus.

Nicomachus was a scribe who headed an Athenian committee, the , tasked with publishing the laws of Draco and Solon after the oligarchic revolution of 411 BC had been suppressed by the democrats. Lysias in a speech denouncing Nicomachus notes that the scribe's father was a public slave, and implies that he was a freedman. His original commission of four months by various pretences extended to six years, throughout which, Lysias claims, he accepted money to interpolate or omit laws at the behest of others, most notably to allow the oligarchs to oversee the trial that ended in Cleophon's death sentence. Lysias notes that his position went unaudited for several years, whereas most magistracies and commissions underwent a review at the end of each prytany.

Isocrates mentions a Nicomachus of Bate, who, in the same decade, served as an arbitrator in a property case arising out of the actions of the Thirty.