k******d 发帖数: 23 | 1 Of Euclid's life it is known only that he taught at and founded a school
at Alexandria in the time of Ptolemy I Soter, who reigned from 323 to 285/283
BC. Medieval translators and editors often confused him with the philosopher
Eucleides of Megara, a contemporary of Plato about a century before, and
therefore called him Megarensis. Writing in the 5th century AD, the Greek
philosopher Proclus told the story of Euclid's reply to Ptolemy, who asked
whether there was any shorter way in geometry than |
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