Timaeus or Timaeus the Mathematician
7. The MATHEMATICIAN, is quoted by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.9, 16.22, 2.8). Suidas says that Timaeus, the Locrian [No. 2] wrote Μαθηματικά, but whether this was really the work of the Locrian or not, cannot be determined. The fragment on the Pleiades, preserved by the Scholiast on the Iliad (18.486), and usually assigned to Timaeus of Tauromenium, is supposed by Göller to belong to the mathematician.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.