Leon (mathematician)
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Leon was Ancient Greek mathematician and pupil of Neocleides.[1] His book Elements was overshadowed by Euclid's work of the same name.
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- ^ Gow, James (1884), A Short History of Greek Mathematics, University Press, p. 183,
Of Neocleides and his pupil Leon also, we know no more than the Eudemian summary tells us, in which the only important fact is that Leon wrote an improved 'Elements' and treated particularly of diorismus.
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