Pappus of Alexandria

/ ˈpæpəs /

noun

1. Pappus of Alexandria3rd century bc3rd century bcMGreekSCIENCE: mathematician 3rd century bc , Greek mathematician, whose eight-volume Synagoge is a valuable source of information about Greek mathematics

Example Sentences

Pappus of Alexandria declared that bees “possessed a divine sense of symmetry,” and Charles Darwin described the honeycomb as a masterpiece of engineering that is “absolutely perfect in economizing labor and wax.”

From Slate

The proposition relating to the exterior angle was recognized by Pappus of Alexandria.

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Pappus of Alexandria, in his Mathematical Collection, says that Euclid was a man of mild and inoffensive temperament, unpretending, and kind to all genuine students of mathematics.

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In point of time, the notice of Ceylon given by the Armenian Archbishop Moses of Chorene in his Historia Armeniaca et Epitome Geographi�, is entitled to precede that of Cosmos Indico-pleustes, inasmuch as Moses has translated into Armenian the Greek text of Pappus of Alexandria, who wrote about the end of the fourth century.

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Pappus of Alexandria, a Greek geometer of the third or fourth century, author of "Mathematical Collections," in eight books, of which the first and second have been lost.

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