Alexandria

Mathematicians

• Euclid (c. 300 B.C.E)
• Hypsicles
• Heron
• Menelaus
• Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus) (C.E. 100-178)
• Diophantus
• Pappus of Alexandria (c. 320)
• Theon
• Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 370-415)

References on the Web

• Alaa K. Ashmawy's Alexandria page including much information on Alexandria's history

• Ellen N. Brundige's article on the Library of Alexandria

Bibliography

• Davis, H. T. Alexandria, the golden city. 2 volumes. Principia Press of Illinois, Evanston, 1957.

• Parsons, Edward Alexander The Alexandrian library, glory of the Hellenic world; its rise, antiquities, and destructions. Elsevier, Amsterdam-New York, 1952.

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