Pappos

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Pappos (altgriechisch Πάππος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς Páppos ho Alexandreús, latinisiert Pappus Alexandrinus oder Pappus, auch Pappos von Alexandria) war ein spätantiker griechischer Mathematiker und Astronom. Er lebte im 4. Jahrhundert in Alexandria und war einer der letzten bedeutenden Mathematiker der Antike.

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He Apollonius of Perga] spent a very long time with the pupils of Euclid at Alexandria, and it was thus that he acquired such a scientific habit of thought.

— Vol. 1 Tr. T. L. Heath of Euclid's (c. 300 BC) text

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Now analysis is of two kinds, the one directed to searching for the truth and called theoretical, the other directed to finding what we are told to find and called problematical.

— Vol. 1 Tr. T. L. Heath of Euclid's (c. 300 BC) text

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This is also evident from what Pappus has done in the beginning of his seventh book, where...

— René Descartes, translation The Geometry of René Descartes (1925) by David E. Smith and Marcia L. Lantham, unless otherwise noted.

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The question, then, the solution of which...

— René Descartes, translation The Geometry of René Descartes (1925) by David E. Smith and Marcia L. Lantham, unless otherwise noted.

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Since there is always an infinite number of different points satisfying these requirements, it is also required to discover and trace the curve containing all such points.

— René Descartes, translation The Geometry of René Descartes (1925) by David E. Smith and Marcia L. Lantham, unless otherwise noted.

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