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Euclid, Father of Geometry

Greek mathematician, whose chief work, Elements, is a comprehensive treatise on mathematics in 13 volumes on such subjects as plane geometry, proportion in general, the properties of numbers, incommensurable magnitudes, and solid geometry. He probably was educated at Athens by pupils of Plato.

About Euclid 

Euclid, also known as Euclid of Alexandria, "The Father of Geometry" was a Greek mathematician of the Hellenistic period who flourished in Alexandria, Egypt, almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 BC-283 BC).He was born in Greece. His Elements is the most successful textbook in the history of mathematics. In it, the Euclidprinciples of Euclidean geometry are deduced from a small set of axioms. Furthermore, Euclid's method of proving mathematical theorems by logical reasoning from accepted first principles remains the backbone of mathematics and is responsible for that field's characteristic rigor (see Mathematics). Although best-known for its geometric results, the Elements also includes various results in number theory, such as the connection between perfect numbers and Mersenne primes, the proof of the infinitude of prime numbers, Euclid's lemma on factorization (which leads to the fundamental theorem of arithmetic on uniqueness of prime factorizations), and the Euclidean algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers. Euclid also wrote works on perspective, conic sections, spherical geometry, and possibly quadric surfaces. Wikipedia.

Euclid Resources 

Euclid's Elements, Introduction
This dynamically illustrated edition of Euclid's Elements includes 13 books on plane geometry, geometric and abstract algebra, number theory, incommensurables, and solid geometry...
Euclid's Elements in Greek
Euclid's Elements is by far the most famous mathematical work of classical antiquity, and also has the distinction of being the world's oldest continuously used mathematical textbook. Little is known about the author, beyond the fact that he lived in Alexandria around 30...
Euclid's Elementa Geometriae
Elementa Geometriae - 1482 - Euclid, (author) - Venice - The Bancroft Library; University of California, Berkeley.
Biography of Euclid - Math Open Reference
A biography of Euclid. A short description of his life and contributions to the study of geometry. Links to other resources...

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