CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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Who told King Ptolemy that “There is no royal way to learn geometry?”
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Euclid
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Pythagoras
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Aristotle
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Poseidon
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Explanation:
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: -Euclidean geometry, the study of plane and solid figures on the basis of axioms and theorems employed by the Greek mathematician Euclid (c. 300 bce).
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