# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pappus-of-alexandria
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:47:24.867Z

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name: "Pappus of Alexandria"
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description: "A mathematician working in the long twilight of ancient Greek science, teaching geometry in fourth-century Alexandria while the classical tradition wound down around him — then rediscovered over a millennium later, when Europe began reading his compendium and found tools it had forgotten."
tagline: "4th century Greek mathematician"
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birthDate: "290"
deathDate: "350"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Almost nothing survives about Pappus's life except scattered mentions in his own writings, many now lost. He lived in Alexandria around 290–350 AD, teaching advanced mathematics to students like Hermodorus. Around 340 he compiled the Synagoge, or Collection, an eight-volume survey of the ancient curriculum: geometry, astronomy, mechanics, the span of what a serious student was expected to know. He worked during what most historians consider a period of stagnation, and opinion split on whether he was a rare bright spot or a symptom of the decline that had already set in. His reputation followed the arc of Diophantus — marginal in his own time, then powerfully influential once the Renaissance found his manuscripts and realized what had been preserved.