The content of the Mishnat ha-Middot resembles the work of this 1st Century AD Egyptian mathematician.
Hero of Alexandria Hero of Alexandria ( ; Greek: Ἥρων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς , "Heron ho Alexandreus"; also known as Heron of Alexandria ; c. 10 AD – c. 70 AD) was a mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria, Roman Egypt. He is considered the greatest experimenter of antiquity and his work is representative of the Hellenistic scientific tradition.
Judah ibn Kuraish Judah ibn Kuraish (Hebrew: יהודה אבן קריש‎ ‎ , Arabic: يهوذا بن قريش‎ ‎ ), was a North African Jewish grammarian and lexicographer. He was born at Tiaret in North Africa and flourished in the 9th century. While his grammatical works advanced little beyond his predecessors, he was the first in studying comparative philology in Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic. He recognized that the various Semitic languages are derived from one source and that although they are different in their development, they are subject to the same linguistic laws. Judah's grammatical researches were original, and he maintained his views regardless of the "Mishnah" and the "Talmud" so he has been erroneously considered a Karaite.