Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates

Plato was a mathematician and philosopher in Ancient Greece. Traveling much in his younger life around the classical world at the age of forty he returned to Athens and founded the earliest known school of higher learning in the Western world, laying the foundations for philosophy and science. With thirty-six dialogues and thirteen letters that is accredited to Plato. He has had a far reaching influence on western culture as his works are used to teach far beyond just philosophy into logic, mathematics, ethics, rhetoric and science.