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Euclid's Facts Euclid was born about 365 BC in Alexandria, Egypt and died about 300 BC. Euclid was best known for his treatise on geometry (The Elements). The long lasting nature of The Elements must make Euclid the leading mathematician of all time. But little ....

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.... were studied. The Elements is divided into 13 books. Books 1-6, plane geometry: books 7- 9, number theory: book 10, Exodus's theory of irrational numbers: books 11-13, solid geometry. The book ends with a discussion of the properties of the five regular polyhedral and a proof that there are precisely five. More than one thousand editions of The Elements have been published since it was first printed in 1482. The Elements Helpfulness The Elements were obviously helpful because Zeno of Sidon about 250 years after Euclid wrote The Elements, seems to have been the first to show that Euclid's propositions were not deduced from the axioms alone, and E ....