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Euclid

Euclid

325 BCE–265 BCE · Alexandria

The mathematician of Alexandria whose Elements organized geometry into a rigorous deductive system and remained the standard textbook for over two millennia.

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AlexandriaEgypt

What they did here

Worked at Alexandria; wrote the Elements.

In Alexandria at the same time

Hecataeus of Abdera, Herophilus of Chalcedon, Lycophron, Callimachus, Erasistratus of Ceos, Apollonius Rhodius

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