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There is a story about Ptolemy Soter (367–282 BC), the first king of Egypt and founder of the Alexandrian museum, who studied geometry under Euclid (~ fourth century BC). Ptolemy found the subject rather difficult and apparently asked his teacher whether there was an easier way of learning geometry.
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Padmanabhan, T., Padmanabhan, V. (2019). Geometry without Figures. In: The Dawn of Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17509-2_17
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