Talk:Leo the Mathematician

Two things
How does the "cite journal" method make the article better? It makes editing footnotes more difficult, and it introduces inconsistency in the form of the different citations.

How do the "Life" and "Works" section headings help the reader? The works section is short and tells us very little by way of specifics, and does include is most important work: his inventions. A "life" section in a biographical article sounds inherently redundant unless the subjects actual life is likely to take up a minority of the article's length. Srnec (talk) 21:43, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Leo the Philosopher and the karkinoi in the Greek Anthology
The Planudean supplement to the Greek Anthology cites Leo as the author of the karkinoi (palindromes) found in 387c. Any objection to adding this? It seems apparent that this line in the lede is wrong: "His only preserved writings are some notes contained in manuscripts of Plato's dialogues."

That also isn't clear to the casual reader iMHO; obviously he lived long after Plato's death. Does this mean "some notes HE MADE in the margins of manuscripts of Plato's dialogues"? Or introductory comments or footnotes he added to a manuscript edition of Plato? This should be clarified. Msalt (talk) 15:49, 1 September 2016 (UTC)