Euclid
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| Gender | Male |
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| Nationality | Greek |
| Born | Mid-4th Century BC |
| Known for | Euclidean geometry; Euclid's Elements; Euclidean algorithm |
| Euclid's Elements | |
| Euclidean algorithm | |
| Died | Alexandria |
| Egypt | |
| Residence | Alexandria |
| Egypt | |
| Ptolemaic Kingdom | |
| Books | Euclid's Phaenomena |
| The contents of the fifth and sixth books of Euclid | |
| Les Oeuvres d'Euclide | |
| Euclid's Elements | |
| Euclid's Optics | |
| Euclid I, II | |
| Data | |
| The First Six of the Elements of Euclid: In which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are Used Instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners | |
| Field | Mathematics |
| Influenc | Virtually all of subsequent Western and Middle Eastern mathematics |
| Downwards | Euclid's Elements |
| Influencees | Isaac Newton |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | |
| Ibn al-Haytham | |
| Apollonius of Perga | |
| Influences | Pythagoras |
| Thales of Miletus | |
| Eudoxus of Cnidus | |
| Hippocrates of Chios | |
| Theaetetus | |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 441995 |
Euclid Life story
Euclid was an ancient Greek mathematician 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.
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