[HM] Was Euclid trained by a pupil of Plato?

Subject: [HM] Was Euclid trained by a pupil of Plato?
From: Ralph Gainey (sesame@mcn.org)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 15:56:54 EST

I have a question. There is a brief discussion of the School of
Alexandria at this URL:

http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/philsci/Alexandria1.html

A reference for the page is given:

A Short History of Scientific Ideas to 1900 by Charles Singer (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1959)

An excerpt is:

       "Among the first to be called to the Alexandrian Academy was
       Euclid (ca. 330 - 260). Euclid was trained in Athens, PROBABLY
       [my caps] by a pupil of Plato."

Do math historians generally agree about this?

Ralph Gainey

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