Around 300 BC, with the rise to power of Ptolemy I and the military successes of Alexander the Great, mathematical activity moved to the Egyptian part of the Greek empire. In Alexandria Ptolemy founded a university that became the intellectual centre for Greek scholarship for over 800 years, and also started its famous library which eventually held hundreds of thousands of manuscripts. The celebrated Pharos lighthouse at Alexandria was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
[Great Britain 2003; Greece 1955; Hungary 1980]
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