Euclid: the Mathematicians

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Euclid the Mathematicians ‘The Father of Geometry’ Background: Euclid was borned around 365 B.C. in a place called Tyre. Euclid studied in Plato’s ancient school in Athens, where only the opulent studied. He later shifted to Alexandria in Egypt, where he discovered a well-known division of mathematics, known as geometry. He inculcated an interest in the field of mathematics and took the subject to a whole new level with path breaking discoveries and theorems. In his time Euclid was thought of as being too thorough as he also taught at the university in Alexandria, Egypt, for the rest of his life, and he died in 300 B.C. His Great Idea: Euclid's Elements has proven instrumental in the development of logic and modern science. Euclid enters history as one of the greatest of all mathematicians and he is often referred to as the father of geometry. Euclid's great work consisted of thirteen books covering a vast body of mathematical knowledge, spanning arithmetic, geometry and number theory. The books are organized by subjects, covering every area of mathematics and the ancient Greek version of the elementary number theory. The standard geometry most of us learned in school is called Euclidian Geometry. Euclid was the most important teacher and mathematician of his time. Euclid was responsible in connoting Geometrical knowledge and also wrote the famous Euclid’s Elements and framed the skeleton for geometry that was used as the basic text on geometry throughout the Western world for about 2,000 years. He also came up with a set of Euclidian Constructions that were basic tools needed to produce geometric constructions. The reason that Euclid was so influential is that his work is more than just an explanation of geometry or even of mathematics. The way in which he used logic and demanded proof for every theorem shaped the ideas of western philosophers right up

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