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Euclid of Alexandria is the most prominent mathematician of antiquity best known for his treatise on mathematics The Elements. The long lasting nature of The Elements must make Euclid the leading mathematics teacher of all time. However little is known of Euclid's life except that he taught at Alexandria in Egypt. Proclus, the last major Greek philosopher, who lived around 450 AD wrote (see [1] or [9] or many other sources):-

Not much younger than these [pupils of Plato] is Euclid, who put together the "Elements", arranging in order many of Eudoxus's 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 in the time of the first Ptolemy; for Archimedes, who followed closely upon the first Ptolemy makes mention of Euclid, and further they say that Ptolemy once asked him if there were a shorted way to study geometry than the Elements, to which he replied that there was no royal road to geometry. He is therefore younger than Plato's circle,

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Euclides (Euclid)

Flourishing circa 295 b.c.e.

Mathematician

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Uncertain Biography. Although Euclid is one of the more identifiable and enduring writers in classical antiquity by giving his name to a branch of geometry—Euclidean—little is known about his life. Only two biographical details can be established: he was intermediate between Plato (died circa 347 b.c.e.) and Archimedes (born circa 287 b.c.e.); and he taught in Alexandria in Egypt. Earlier scholars believed that Euclid came after Archimedes because Euclid’s Elements 1.2 is cited in Archimedes’ work, but the passage is regarded as an interpolation. Mathematical commentator Pappus of Alexandria (flourishing 320 c.e.) records that Apollonius lived in Alexandria with Euclid’s students and this time period was probably between 246 and 221. One anecdote reveals the only personal detail, recorded by the Lycian Neo-platonist philosopher Proclus, who tells us that King Ptolemy (which Ptolemy is not stated) asked Euclid whether there was an easier way to learn geometry other than reading the whole of Elements.

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Euclid

Ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)

For the philosopher, see Euclid of Megara. For other uses, see Euclid (disambiguation).

Euclid (; Ancient Greek: Εὐκλείδης; fl. 300 BC) was an ancient Greekmathematician active as a geometer and logician. Considered the "father of geometry", he is chiefly known for the Elements treatise, which established the foundations of geometry that largely dominated the field until the early 19th century. His system, now referred to as Euclidean geometry, involved innovations in combination with a synthesis of theories from earlier Greek mathematicians, including Eudoxus of Cnidus, Hippocrates of Chios, Thales and Theaetetus. With Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga, Euclid is generally considered among the greatest mathematicians of antiquity, and one of the most influential in the history of mathematics.

Very little is known of Euclid's life, and most information comes from the scholars Proclus and Pappus of Alexandria many centuries later. Medieval Islamic mathematicians invented a fanciful biography, and medieval Byzantine a