
40 ◾ Computing
eon of Alexandria (c. 335–c. 405 AD) was a Greco-Egyptian scholar
and a mathematician in the fourth century. He edited and arranged Euclid’s
Elements. His edition was widely used and had become the only surviv-
ing Greek source until the 19th-century discovery of another source in the
Vatican Library [10]. e Arabs received Elements from Byzantine around
760 AD. is version was translated into Arabic around 800 AD. Although
some Western scholars probably knew that Elements existed in Byzantine,
there is no existing record of Euclid’s Elements having been translated into
Latin before the 12th century. It was lost to West Europe ...