famous mathmaticians help!?

Question

ok so i need help to find this mathematician, i tried my self on the web like 100 times but i just cant find the one i'm looking for.

1) was taught mathematics in the royal school founded by King Ptolemy in Alexandria, Egypt.
wrote a best selling math textbok about geometry
finished writing information on 133 rolls of parchment about 300 BC
1000 years later it was traslated in to Arabic, Latin.
also Albert Einstein used my work in mental exercises

Answer 1

i think it is Euclid

Answer 2

The famous mathematician that you are looking for is Euclid. His best selling math textbook about geometry was 13 volumes and was called the Elements, which he wrote about 300 B.C.

Here's the link that verifies what you were given...
http://www.answers.com/topic/euclid

Answer 3

maximum mathematicians have been additionally recognised for contributions to technological know-how. Sir Isaac Newton did no longer purely paintings in Physics, he additionally created Calculus as all of us are conscious of it. Rene Descartes replaced into recognised for philosophy yet in addition made important contributions to geometry. the classic Egyptians invented trigonometry. the classic Babylonians in certainty invented the the remainder of geometry (that's why a circle has 360 ranges).

Answer 4

Pythagoras

Answer 5

the most famous ancient geometry text is by Euclid

Answer 6

I bet it is Euclid

Answer 7

plato? gallileo? ruemann? =X no idea

Edit: Euclid sounds about right.

Answer 8

pythagoras maybe?
or muhammad kwarismi (sp?)?

edit:
euclid is probably right!