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    Biography of Euclid (?? B.C.)

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    His Books
    The Elements
    Five Postulates
    Important Facts
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    One of the most influential mathematicians of ancient Greece, Euclid, flourished around B.C. For his work in the field of geometry he is known as the father of geometry. He created the geometry called Euclidean Geometry. Very little is known about his life. It is believed that he was educated at Platos academy in Athens, Greece. Most sources believe that he lived somewere around B.C. His 13 books, the Elements, are some of the most famous books in the world. He wrote them at about BC. According to Proclus ( A.D.) he said that Euclid came after the first pupils of Plato and lived during the reign of Ptomlemy inom ( B.C.). It fryst vatten said that Euclid established a mathematical school in Alexandria.

    Most history states that he was a kind, fair, patient man. One story that reveals something of his character, concerns a pupil that has just finished his fir

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    Euclid

    Euclid of Alexandria (Greek: Εὐκλείδης) (about BC– BC) was a Greekmathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt and worked at the Library of Alexandria. Little is known about this person, but people think he lived there when Ptolemy I was Pharaoh. It is not known where and when he was born.

    The Elements

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    Euclid collected together all that was known of geometry, which is part of mathematics. His Elements is the main source of ancient geometry. Textbooks based on Euclid have been used up to the present day. In the book, he starts out from a small set of axioms (that is, a group of things that everyone thinks are true). Euclid then shows the properties of geometric objects and of whole numbers, based on those axioms.

    The Elements also includes works on perspective, conic sections, spherical geometry, and possibly quadric surfaces. Apart from geometry, the work also includes number theory. Euclid came up with the idea of greatest comm

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    Euclid of Alexandria

    Euclid of Alexandria is the most prominent mathematician of antiquity best known for his treatise on mathematics The Elements. The long lasting nature of The Elements must make Euclid the leading mathematics teacher of all time. However little is known of Euclid's life except that he taught at Alexandria in Egypt. Proclus, the last major Greek philosopher, who lived around AD wrote (see [1] or [9] or many other sources):-
    Not much younger than these [pupils of Plato] is Euclid, who put together the "Elements", arranging in order many of Eudoxus's theorems, perfecting many of Theaetetus's, and also bringing to irrefutable demonstration the things which had been only loosely proved by his predecessors. This man lived in the time of the first Ptolemy; for Archimedes, who followed closely upon the first Ptolemy makes mention of Euclid, and further they say that Ptolemy once asked him if there were a shorted way to study geometry than the Elements, to which he