Euclid simple biography

Euclid of Alexandria (Greek: Εὐκλείδης) (about 325 BC–265 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).

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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 greate