Pappus of Alexandria

British  

/ ˈpæpəs /

noun

1. 3rd century _bc , Greek mathematician, whose eight-volume Synagoge is a valuable source of information about Greek mathematics

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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 ● Jul. 22, 2015

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.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various

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.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

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

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene