CIVILIZATION
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Question
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stoics
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euclid
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sophocles
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demosthenes
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to Proclus [9], Euclid was asked by King Ptolemy I if there is not a shorter road to geometry than through the Elements. Euclid replied that “there is no royal road to geometry."
Detailed explanation-2: -There is no royal road to geometry. ( The “Royal Road” was the road built across Anatolia and Persia by Darius I which allowed rapid communication and troop movement, but use of (rather than ) conveys the connotation of “short cut".
Detailed explanation-3: -When Ptolemy, a pharaoh by trade, asked him if there was an easier way to learn it, he replied “there is no royal road to geometry.”
Detailed explanation-4: -One was related by Proclus and states that when Euclid was teaching Ptolemy, the young Egyptian King, he was asked by the pupil whether or not there was a shorter road to the mastery of geometry than through Elements. Euclid is said to have replied, “there is no royal road to geometry".
Detailed explanation-5: -Non-Euclidean geometry was finally birthed in the 1800s under the work of several mathematicians, including Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), Nikoali Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1793-1856), and Janos Bolyai (1802-1860).