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PublisherMacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
URLhttps://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pappus/
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Pappus, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews- publisher identity, mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk masthead
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Pappus's major work in geometry is Synagoge or the Mathematical Collection which is a collection of mathematical writings in eight books thought to have been written in around 340 ( although some historians believe that Pappus had completed the work by 325 AD ) .
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