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Nicomachus
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Nicomachus

Roman mathematician

Born c. AD 60 · died c. AD 120
Also known as Nicomachus of Gerasa

Who was alive at the same time as Nicomachus?

  1. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  2. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  3. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  4. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  5. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  6. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  7. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  8. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  9. Petronius, c. AD 27 – AD 66
  10. Otho, AD 32 – AD 69
  11. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  12. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  13. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  14. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  15. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  16. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  17. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  18. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  19. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  20. Nicomachus, c. AD 60 – c. AD 120
  21. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  22. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138
  23. Antoninus Pius, AD 86 – AD 161
  24. Ptolemy, c. AD 100 – c. AD 170

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Born during Nicomachus’s lifetime: Ptolemy, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Justin Martyr, Zhang Heng, Appian, Arrian and Pausanias.

Not quite contemporaries: Claudius died about 3 years before Nicomachus was born, Didius Julianus was born about 10 years after Nicomachus died, Pertinax was born about 4 years after Nicomachus died and Irenaeus was born about 6 years after Nicomachus died.

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Where Nicomachus’s contemporaries were born

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The 62 best-known contemporaries

62 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Nicomachus. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 90.

  1. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  2. Plutarch c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  3. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  4. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  5. Ptolemy c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  6. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  7. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  8. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  9. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  10. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  11. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  12. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  13. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  14. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  15. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  16. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  17. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  18. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  19. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  20. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  21. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  22. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  23. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  24. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  25. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  26. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  27. Lucan AD 39 – AD 65
  28. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  29. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  30. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  31. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  32. Justin Martyr c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  33. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  34. Appian c. AD 95 – c. AD 165
  35. Arrian c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  36. Pausanias c. AD 113 – c. AD 180
  37. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  38. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  39. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  40. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  41. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  42. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  43. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  44. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  45. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  46. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  47. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  48. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  49. Antinous c. AD 111 – AD 130
  50. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  51. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  52. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  53. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  54. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  55. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  56. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  57. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  58. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  59. Marcus Cornelius Fronto c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  60. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  61. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  62. Herodes Atticus c. AD 101 – AD 177