"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."
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Sir Thomas Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics, Dover, New York, 1981, p. 360. quoted in Is Science Western in Origin? C K Raju
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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.
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