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Pappus Of Alexandria

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Gender Male
Born Alexandria
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ChildrenHermodorus
GrandchildrenSopolis of Macedon
Job Mathematician
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Pappus of Alexandria was one of the last great Greek mathematicians of Antiquity, known for his Synagoge or Collection, and for Pappus's hexagon theorem in projective geometry. Nothing is known of his life, other than, that he had a son named Hermodorus, and was a teacher in Alexandria.

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