Title page of Pappus’s Mathematicae Collectiones, translated into Latin by Federico Commandino (1589).
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/ˈpæpəs/
greek: Πάππος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς
c. 290 – c. 350 AD
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*”pappus of alexandria” was one of the last great greek mathematicians of ‘Antiquity’, known for his Synagoge (Συναγωγή) or Collection (c. 340), and for Pappus’s hexagon theorem in ‘projective geometry’*
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(nothing is known of his life, other than, (from his own writings) that he had a son named ‘Hermodorus’, and was a teacher in ‘alexandria’)
(“collection”, his best-known work, is a compendium of mathematics in 8 volumes, the bulk of which survives)
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(it covers a wide range of topics, including…)
‘geometry’,
‘recreational mathematics’
‘doubling the cube’
‘polygons’
‘polyhedra’
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(“pappus of alexandria”, greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the ‘sun’ and writes a commentary on ‘The Great Astronomer’ (‘almagest’))
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