... a comprehensive treatise on mathematics in thirteen volumes on such subjects as plane geometry, proportion in general, the properties of numbers, incommensurable magnitudes, and solid geometry. He was probably educated at Athens by pupils of Plato. He taught geometry in Alexandria and founded a school of mathematics there. The Data, a collection of geometrical theorems; the Phenomena, a description of the heavens; the Optics: the Division of ... theory of numbers. Euclid laid down some of the conventions central to modern mathematical proofs. His book The Elements, written about 300 BC,...

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... : Not much younger than these [pupils of Plato] is Euclid, who put together the "Elements", arranging in order many of Eudoxus' theorems, perfecting many of Theaetetus's, and also bringing to irrefutable demonstration the things which had been only loosely proved by his predecessors. This man lived ... of the whole "Elements" the construction of the so-called Platonic figures (website two). Though Euclid is most famous for his writings on geometry, it is the quadratic formula that has been at the forefront of problems dealing with area, and in turn, dimensional objects. In about ... a sum...

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