Theon of Alexandria

Theon of Alexandria (ca. 335-405) was a Greek scholar and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. He edited and arranged Euclid's Elements and wrote commentaries on works by Euclid and Ptolemy. His daughter Hypatia also won fame as a mathematician. Quotes that sectors in equal circles are to one another as the angles on which they stand has been proved by me in my edition of the Elements... in : C. K. Raju. Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: The Nature of Mathematical Proof and the Transmission of the Calculus from India to Europe. Pearson Education India, 2007 Quotes about ‘Yet some few of such investigations we have in the five first propositions of Euclid’s thirteenth book … seems to be the work of Theo, […] rather than of Euclid himself.’ John Wallis, quoted in: Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189 All our Greek texts of the Elements up to a century ago…purport in their titles to be either ‘from the edition of Theon’…or ‘from the lectures of Theon... [Greek commentaries] commonly speak of the writer of the Elements instead of using his name. Sir Thomas Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics, Dover, New York, 1981, p. 360. quoted in Is Science Western in Origin? C K Raju TEONE Alessandrino Filosofo, e Matematico, e publico lettore delle Matematiche in Alessandria; percioche egli haveva il carico d'interpretare il libro degl'Elementi, e le cose dell'Almagesto di Tolomeo. Onde sopra l'una, e l'altra di quelle opere affaticossi egregiamente; ma sopra tutte bella fù la fatica, ch'egli fece sopra l'Almagesto. THEON of Alexandria Philosopher, and Mathematician, and public reader of Mathematics in Alexandria; therefore he was charged with interpreting the book of the Elements, and the things of Ptolemy's Almagest. Waves above one, and the other of those labored works admirably; but above all was beautiful toil, which he did above the Almagest. Bernardino Baldi, Cronica de matematici overo epitome dell'istoria delle vite loro, Angelo Antonio Monticelli, Urbino, 1707, p. 52. External links Category:Mathematicians from Greece Category:Astronomers from Greece Category:Philosophers from Greece