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Pappus, born at Alexandria, Egypt is the last of the great Greek geometers. Pappus major work ‘Synagoge’ or ‘The Mathematical Collection’ is a collection of mathematical writings in eight books. He described the principles of levers, pulleys, wedges, axles and screws. These concepts are widely applied in Physics and modern Engineering Science. “Nature is an infinite sphere of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference nowhere”. - Blaise Pascal Pappus
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Pappus, born at Alexandria, Egypt is the last of the great Greek geometers. Pappus major work ‘Synagoge’ or ‘The Mathematical Collection’ is a collection of mathematical writings in eight books. He described the principles of levers, pulleys, wedges, axles and screws. These concepts are widely applied in Physics and modern Engineering Science.
“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference nowhere”. - Blaise Pascal Pappus
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