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Euclid Essay
Title: Euclid Essay
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 320 | Pages: 1.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Euclid Essay
Born: About 365 BC in Alexandria, Egypt
Died: About 300 BC
Short Biography
Euclid is one of the world's most famous mathematicians, yet very little is known of his life, except that he taught at Ptolemy’s university at Alexandria, Egypt. Euclid's Elements, a work on elementary geometry and other topics, exceeded other works of its time, which are now known only by indirect reference. The Elements begins with definitions, postulates, and axioms, including the famous fifth, or parallel, postulate that one and only one line can …showed first 85 words of 320 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 320 total…original discoveries, and the Elements is based on the work of the people before him, like Exodus, Thales, Hippocrates, and Pythagoras. It is accepted that some of the proofs are his own and that the excellent arrangement is his. Over a thousand editions of the work have been published since the first printed version of 1482. Euclid's other works include Data, On Divisions of Figures, Phaenomena, Optics, Surface Loci, Porisms, Conics, Book of Fallacies, and Elements of Music. Only the first four of these have survived.
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