Euclid's Elements.

... Burak Tarhan #005375 HIST 315 / Erdal Inönü 24.1.2003 Euclid's Elements Euclid was a Greek mathematician who lived approximately between 330-270 B.C in Alexandria, Egypt. After receiving his education, probably at Plato's Academy in Athens, or from some of Plato's students, Euclid became a teacher and scholar at the school in Alexandria, which is now known as the Museum. While he was a teacher there, he wrote his most famous work, The Elements. Euclid compiled and systematically arranged the geometry and number theory of his day into this text. This text, used in schools for about 2000 years, earned him the name "the father of geometry." Even today, the geometries which do not satisfy the fifth of Euclids "common notions" (now called axioms or postulates) are called non-Euclidean geometries. Little is known about Euclid's life. Proclus wrote (c. 350 AD) that Euclid lived during the reign of Ptolemy and founded the first

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