Pappus's Collection: The Last Great Ancient Mathematician

320 CE · İskenderiye · cultural

In his Mathematica Collectio the Alexandrian mathematician Pappus compiled the history of mathematics from Euclid to Archimedes; it contains theorems fundamental to projective geometry.

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What was Pappus's Collection: The Last Great Ancient Mathematician?
In his Mathematica Collectio the Alexandrian mathematician Pappus compiled the history of mathematics from Euclid to Archimedes; it contains theorems fundamental to projective geometry.
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320 CE
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