Nicoteles of Cyrene (c. 250 BCE) was a Greek mathematician.
He is mentioned in the preface to Book IV of the Conics of Apollonius, as criticising Conon concerning the maximum number of points with which a conic section can meet another conic section. Apollonius states that Nicoteles claimed that the case in which a conic section meets opposite sections could be solved, but had not demonstrated how.
It is possible that Nicoteles could be a misspelling of Nicomedes.
References
- Fried, M., Unguru, S., Apollonius of Perga's Conica: Text, Context, Subtext, Pages 120, 416-417. BRILL. (2001). ISBN 9-0041-1977-9
- Heath, T., The Works of Archimedes, Pages 189-190. (1897). ISBN 0-4864-2084-1
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