Leon () was an Ancient Greek mathematician and pupil of
Neocleides, who was active from around 370 to 340 BCE. His book ''Elements'' was overshadowed by
Euclid
Euclid (; ; BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. Considered the "father of geometry", he is chiefly known for the '' Elements'' treatise, which established the foundations of geometry that largely domina ...
's
work of the same name.
Proclus
Proclus Lycius (; 8 February 412 – 17 April 485), called Proclus the Successor (, ''Próklos ho Diádokhos''), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major classical philosophers of late antiquity. He set forth one of th ...
states the following
[ Thomas Taylor, ]
The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries of Proclus on the First Book of Euclid's Elements
' Vol. 1 (1788) in his ''Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements'':
But Neoclides was junior to Leodamas, and his disciple was Leon; who added many things to those thought of by former geometricians. So that Leon also constructed elements more accurate, both on account of their multitude, and on account of the use which they exhibit: and besides this, he discovered a method of determining when a problem, whose investigation is sought for, is possible, and when it is impossible.
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