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Geometric questions have been pondered by people for thousands of years.
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Born in 428 BC, he was a student of Socrates, and became one of the most influential thinkers of all times.
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He was born in 384 BC, studied under Plato, and was the tutor of Alexander the Great.
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Edelsbrunner, H. (2014). Roots of Geometry and Topology. In: A Short Course in Computational Geometry and Topology. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05957-0_1
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