Euclid Ancient Greek Eukleid s Good Glory ca 365 275 BC also known as Euclid of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician often referred to as the Father of Geometry He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I 323 283 BC His Stoicheia Elements is a 13 volume exploration all corners of mathematics based on the works of inter alia Aristotle Eudoxus of Cnidus Plato Pythagoras It is one of the most influential works in the history of mathematics presenting the mathematical theorems and problems with great clarity and showing their solutions concisely and logically Thus it came to serve as the main textbook for teaching mathematics especially geometry from the time of its publication until the Euclid Ancient Greek Eukleid s Good Glory ca 365 275 BC also known as Euclid of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician often referred to as the Father of Geometry He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I 323 283 BC His Stoicheia Elements is a 13 volume exploration all corners of mathematics based on the works of inter alia Aristotle Eudoxus of Cnidus Plato Pythagoras It is one of the most influential works in the history of mathematics presenting the mathematical theorems and problems with great clarity and showing their solutions concisely and logically Thus it came to serve as the main textbook for teaching mathematics especially geometry from the time of its publication until the late 19th or early 20th century In the Elements Euclid deduced the principles of what is now called Euclidean geometry from a small set of axioms Euclid also wrote works on perspective conic sections spherical geometry number theory and rigor He is sometimes credited with one original theory a method of exhaustion through which the area of a circle and volume of a sphere can be calculated but he left a much greater mark as a teacher site_link

The Definitions, Postulates, Axioms, And Enunciations Of The Propositions Of The First Six, And The Eleventh And Twelfth Books Of Euclid's Elements Of Geometry (1848) By Euclid

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