"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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British historians of mathematics20th-century British mathematicians21st-century British mathematiciansAcademics of the University of WarwickAlumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
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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