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Pappus Alexandrinus
Pappus Alexandrinus
c. 290 CE–c. 350 CE · Alexandria
Pappus of Alexandria (active early 4th century CE) was a Greek mathematician, the author of the Collection, a wide-ranging compendium of Greek geometry that preserves, summarizes, and extends the work of earlier mathematicians. His writings are a major source for our knowledge of ancient mathematics and influenced the later development of geometry.
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About Alexandria
Alexandria (al-Iskandariyya) is the great Mediterranean port-city of northern Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE and a leading centre of learning in antiquity. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt (642) it remained a major commercial and scholarly hub; the Shadhili Sufi Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309) took his nisba from the city, and the modernist reformer Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905) was active in Egypt's intellectual life there and in Cairo.
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