What anecdotes were there about Euclid?

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2026-05-13 11:15

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Euclid, Pythagoras and a nun walk into a bar... No, I can't tell that one. How about Proclus telling a story that, when Ptolemy I asked if there was a shorter path to learning geometry than Euclid's Elements, "Euclid replied, 'There is no royal road to geometry.'"

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