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The school established by Euclid in Alexandria produced some first-rate mathematicians: Aristarchus, Archimedes, Apollonius, and Eratosthenes.
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Anglin, W.S. (1994). Alexandria and Archimedes. In: Mathematics: A Concise History and Philosophy. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0875-4_16
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