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Euclid’s Elements is an important heritage of the Neo-Hellenic civilization. Despite this fact Euclid is very difficult to be found in the Greek mathematics education as it was developing after the liberation from the Ottoman Empire.
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Notes
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Traditionally, at some universities of Northern Italy, there had been a Medical-Physics Faculty, composed of two Departments: a preparatory one, for Physics-Mathematics and a Medical-Surgical (see [36], p. 97).
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To this category belong the books-translations of Anthracites, Theotokis, Voulgaris and Benjamin of Lesvos (see [39]).
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These types of books were translations of Razi and Kouma (see [39]).
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The Greek translation of this concept was according to the 12th edition of the Legendre’ Géométrie, in 1823.
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He was an aristocrat (he had the title of Count), educated with medical and philosophical studies in Padua, Italy, and a high degree of political prestige, due to his role in Russian diplomacy as a leading adviser in foreign policy for Tsar.
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He was great spiritual leader of modern Greece. Through his work in Classical philology, Corais aimed at inculcating in Greeks a sense of their ancient heritage. His emphasis on the need to resurrect Greece’s ancient glory stemmed in large part from his intense hatred of the Orthodox higher clergy whom he blamed for the degraded state of the populace. For Corais, then, the model for a new Greece should be ancient Athens rather than medieval Byzantium (see [11], p. 10).
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Sarazin, L.-Ch.: Manuel des écoles élémentaires, ou Exposé de la method d” enseignement mutual; suivi des ordonnances, arrêtes,règlements concernantl” instruction primaire, Paris, 1829.
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Skarlatos Soutsos (1806–1887) was an aristocrat; he studied on scholarship of King Ludwig I at the Military School of Munich. He served as an officer of the Greek army; he joined the Greek military school, worked in politics and served as Minister of War, http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Σκαρλάτος_Σούτσος
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Alexandros Rizos Ragavis (1809–1892) was an aristocrat; he studied at the Military School in Munich where he had the support of King Ludwig I. He first served as an officer in the Greek army, and later as a secretary of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Interior. He became Professor of Archaeology at the University of Athens. He undertook as a Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the period 1856–1859, and in 1867. Afterwards he served as Ambassador of Greece to the U.S., Istanbul, Paris and Berlin. Important was also his contributions in Greek Literature.
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George A. Gerakis, was one of the first scholars of the Greek government to study in Germany, circa 1837. Afterwards he taught mathematics in “Hellenic” school and Gymnasium of Patras, from 1841. He published several mathematics textbooks and translated into Greek respective textbooks of F. W.D. Snell and C. Koppe (see [50], p.202]).
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In the late 1830’s there were three high schools, one in Nafplion, one in Athens and one in Syros island.
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Before Kondis, at the Gymnasium of Nauplion were teaching mathematics, Dimitrios Stavridis (1803–1866), who graduated from the Polytechnic of Vienna, and Ch. Vernardos (see [7]).
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See (in Greek) in Journal Pandora, 8, 1857–58, p. 181.
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Specifically, this research was an attempt that can be seen as the second Greek mathematical research effort, with the first one this of Carandinos in the late 1820s.
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The original that was used for this summary is unknown.
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He studied Law in Paris and graduated with a doctorate in 1860.
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Greeks, apart from the independent Greece.
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Who was the uncle of the eminent mathematician, Constantinos Caratheodory (1873–1950).
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Kastanis, N. (2023). The Overshadowing of Euclid’s Geometry by Legendre’s Géométrie in the Modern Greek Education. In: Daras, N.J., Rassias, M.T., Zographopoulos, N.B. (eds) Exploring Mathematical Analysis, Approximation Theory, and Optimization. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 207. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46487-4_9
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