Subject: Re: [HM] Was Euclid trained by a pupil of Plato?
From: Ivo Schneider (Ivo.Schneider@UniBw-Muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 10:26:54 EST
>
> "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?
They do not. Neither is there any sound basis for the assumption that he
lived ca. 330-260 nor that he was trained in Athens. I have discussed the
possibility that Euclid lived after Archimedes in my (German) book on
Archimedes which appeared in 1979 and I found some sympathy with my
arguments in Waschkies and in part in Knorr.
Ivo Schneider
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