Menelaus of Alexandria (/ˌmɛnɪˈleɪəs/; Greek: Μενέλαος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Menelaos ho Alexandreus; c. 70 – 140 CE) was a Greek[1] mathematician and astronomer, the first to recognize geodesics on a curved surface as natural analogs of straight lines.
^Encyclopædia Britannica "Greek mathematician and astronomer who first conceived and defined a spherical triangle (a triangle formed by three arcs of great circles on the surface of a sphere)."
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MenelausofAlexandria (/ˌmɛnɪˈleɪəs/; Greek: Μενέλαος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Menelaos ho Alexandreus; c. 70 – 140 CE) was a Greek mathematician and astronomer...
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treatise of the same title by MenelausofAlexandria (c. 100 AD). Berggren, J. L. (1986), "Spherics in the Islamic world", Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval...
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is by MenelausofAlexandria in the first century, who now, on that basis, commonly is credited with its discovery. (Previous to the finding of the proofs...
observed a century earlier by MenelausofAlexandria (Björnbo 1901); that the difference is a sum of individual errors of various kinds, including calibration...
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