today's trivia
In what city did Euclid, the father of geometry, do most of his work?
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Euclid was Greek but was from Alexandria, which was then a predominantly Greek city in what is now Egypt. He is known as “Euclid of Alexandria” to differentiate him from “Euclid of Megara” a philosopher.
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Va AandM
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Academics were Macedonians. Greek was the language of the pharaoh after Alexander’s general Ptolemy and his later family ran the joint.
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