"No Royal Road to Learning."

The famous mathematician Euclid, upon being asked by Ptolemy Soter (who was his pupil, and afterward king of Egypt) if geometry could not be made easier, replied, "There is no royal road to learning."

Euclid, sometimes called the father of mathematics, was born at Alexandria about 300 B.C.

We know little more of his history than that he belonged to the Platonic school of philosophy, and taught mathematics in the famous school of Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy Soter.