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    Euclid was a Greek mathematician from Alexandria active in the late 4th century BC. He is often referred to as the "founder of geometry" or the "father of geometry". His influential work Elements is one of the most important works in the history of mathematics, laying out geometric and number theoretic principles and serving as the main textbook for over 2000 years. In it, Euclid deduced the theorems of Euclidean geometry through logical proofs from a small set of axioms. Euclid also wrote works on perspective, conic sections, spherical geometry, and mathematical rigor.

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    Euclid was a Greek mathematician from Alexandria active in the late 4th century BC. He is often referred to as the "founder of geometry" or the "father of geometry". His influential work Elements is one of the most important works in the history of mathematics, laying out geometric and number theoretic principles and serving as the main textbook for over 2000 years. In it, Euclid deduced the theorems of Euclidean geometry through logical proofs from a small set of axioms. Euclid also wrote works on perspective, conic sections, spherical geometry, and mathematical rigor.

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    Euclid was a Greek mathematician from Alexandria active in the late 4th century BC. He is often referred to as the "founder of geometry" or the "father of geometry". His influential work Elements is one of the most important works in the history of mathematics, laying out geometric and number theoretic principles and serving as the main textbook for over 2000 years. In it, Euclid deduced the theorems of Euclidean geometry through logical proofs from a small set of axioms. Euclid also wrote works on perspective, conic sections, spherical geometry, and mathematical rigor.

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    Euclid was a Greek mathematician from Alexandria active in the late 4th century BC. He is often referred to as the "founder of geometry" or the "father of geometry". His influential work Elements is one of the most important works in the history of mathematics, laying out geometric and number theoretic principles and serving as the main textbook for over 2000 years. In it, Euclid deduced the theorems of Euclidean geometry through logical proofs from a small set of axioms. Euclid also wrote works on perspective, conic sections, spherical geometry, and mathematical rigor.

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    EUCLID

    Euclid (/ˈjuːklɪd/; Ancient Greek:


    Εὐκλείδης – Eukleídēs, pronounced
    [eu̯ .kleː.dɛːs]; fl. 300 BC), sometimes
    called Euclid of Alexandria to distinguish
    him from Euclid of Megara, was a Greek
    mathematician, often referred to as the
    "founder of geometry" or the "father of
    geometry". He was active in Alexandria
    during the reign of Ptolemy I (323–283
    BC). His Elements is one of the most
    influential works in the history of
    mathematics, serving 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
    theorems 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 mathematical rigour.
    Elements originated with earlier mathematicians, one of Euclid's
    accomplishments was to present them in a single, logically coherent
    framework, making it easy to use and easy to reference, including a
    system of rigorous mathematical proofs that remains the base.The
    Elements also includes number theory. It considers the connection
    between perfect numbers and Mersenne primes (known as the
    Euclid–Euler theorem), 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.is
    of mathematics 23 centuries later.
    OTHER WORKS
     Data deals with the nature and implications of "given"
    information in geometrical problems; the subject matter is
    closely related to the first four books of the Elements.
     On Divisions of Figures, which survives only partially in Arabic
    translation, concerns the division of geometrical figures into
    two or more equal parts or into parts in given ratios. It is similar
    to a first-century AD work by Heron of Alexandria.
     Catoptrics, which concerns the mathematical theory of mirrors,
    particularly the images formed in plane and spherical concave
    mirrors. The attribution is held to be anachronistic however by J
    J O'Connor and E F Robertson who name Theon of Alexandria
    as a more likely author.[21]
     Phaenomena, a treatise on spherical astronomy, survives in
    Greek; it is quite similar to On the Moving Sphere by Autolycus
    of Pitane, who flourished around 310 BC.
     Optics is the earliest surviving Greek treatise on perspective. In
    its definitions Euclid follows the Platonic tradition that vision is
    caused by discrete rays which emanate from the eye. One
    important definition is the fourth: "Things seen under a greater
    angle appear greater, and those under a lesser angle less, while
    those under equal angles appear equal." In the 36 propositions
    that follow, Euclid relates the apparent size of an object to its
    distance from the eye and investigates the apparent shapes of
    cylinders and cones when viewed from different angles.
    Proposition 45 is interesting, proving that for any two unequal
    magnitudes, there is a point from which the two appear equal.
    Pappus believed these results to be important in astronomy
    and included Euclid's Optics, along with his Phaenomena, in the
    Little Astronomy, a compendium of smaller works to be studied
    before the Syntaxis (Almagest) of Claudius Ptolemy.

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