Abstract
Our most important source about the history of Greek mathematics before Euclid originates from Eudemus of Rhodes, a student of Aristotle, who lived from about 350 to 300 b.c.e. He wrote a book on the history of mathematics, which has, however, been lost except for a few passages quoted by other authors. The following one was preserved in Proclus’s Commentary on Euclid. Proclus (410-485 c.e.) is writing about the origin and development of geometry, and the Eudemus passage starts with the second paragraph:
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