"Nothing Almost all of our texts come from Constantinople, the earliest from 888 AD, closer [in] time to us than to the supposed date of Euclid!"
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quoted in Euclid and Jesus, How and why the church changed mathematics and Christianity across two religious wars C. K. Raju
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David Fowler (mathematician)
David Herbert Fowler (28 April 1937 – 13 April 2004) was a historian of Greek mathematics who published work on pre-Eudoxian ratio theory (using the process he called anthyphairesis). He disputed the standard story of
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