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Traditional narrative

The English name 'Euclid' is the anglicized version of the Ancient Greek name Eukleídes (Εὐκλείδης).³⁴ It is derived from 'eu-' (εὖ; 'well') and 'klês' (-κλῆς; 'fame'), meaning "renowned, glorious".⁵ In English, by metonymy, 'Euclid' can mean his most well-known work, Euclid's Elements, or a copy thereof,⁶ and is sometimes synonymous with 'geometry'.⁷

As with many ancient Greek mathematicians, the details of Euclid's life are mostly unknown.⁸ He is accepted as the author of four mostly extant treatises—the Elements, Optics, Data, Phaenomena—but besides this, there is nothing known for certain of him.⁹¹⁰ The traditional narrative mainly follows the 5th century AD account by Proclus in his Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, as well as a few anecdotes from Pappus of Alexandria in the early 4th century.¹¹¹²

According to Proclus, Euclid lived shortly after several of Plato's (d. 347 BC) followers and before the mathematician Archimedes (c. 287 – c. 212 BC);¹³ specifically, Proclus placed Euclid during the rule of Ptolemy I (r. 305/304–282 BC).¹⁴¹⁵¹⁶ Euclid's birthdate is unknown; some scholars estimate around 330¹⁷¹⁸ or 325 BC,¹⁹²⁰ but others refrain from speculating.²¹ It is presumed that he was of Greek descent,²² but his birthplace is unknown.²³²⁴ Proclus held that Euclid followed the Platonic tradition, but there is no definitive confirmation for this.²⁵ It is unlikely he was a contemporary of Plato, so it is often presumed that he was educated by Plato's disciples at the Platonic Academy in Athens.²⁶ Historian Thomas Heath supported this theory, noting that most capable geometers lived in Athens, including many of those whose work Euclid built on;²⁷ historian Michalis Sialaros considers this a mere conjecture.²⁸²⁹ In any event, the contents of Euclid's work demonstrate familiarity with the Platonic geometry tradition.³⁰

In his Collection, Pappus mentions that Apollonius studied with Euclid's students in Alexandria, and this has been taken to imply that Euclid worked and founded a mathematical tradition there.³¹³²³³ The city was founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC,³⁴ and the rule of Ptolemy I from 306 BC onwards gave it a stability which was relatively unique amid the chaotic wars over dividing Alexander's empire.³⁵ Ptolemy began a process of hellenization and commissioned numerous constructions, building the massive Musaeum institution, which was a leading center of education.³⁶³⁷ Euclid is speculated to have been among the Musaeum's first scholars.³⁸ Euclid's date of death is unknown; it has been speculated that he died c. 270 BC.³⁹

Identity and historicity

Euclid is often referred to as 'Euclid of Alexandria' to differentiate him from the earlier philosopher Euclid of Megara, a pupil of Socrates included in dialogues of Plato with whom he was historically conflated.⁴⁰⁴¹ Valerius Maximus, the 1st century AD Roman compiler of anecdotes, mistakenly substituted Euclid's name for Eudoxus (4th century BC) as the mathematician to whom Plato sent those asking how to double the cube.⁴² Perhaps on the basis of this mention of a mathematical Euclid roughly a century early, Euclid became mixed up with Euclid of Megara in medieval Byzantine sources (now lost),⁴³ eventually leading Euclid the mathematician to be ascribed details of both men's biographies and described as Megarensis (lit. 'of Megara').⁴⁴⁴⁵ The Byzantine scholar Theodore Metochites (c. 1300) explicitly conflated the two Euclids, as did printer Erhard Ratdolt's 1482 editio princeps of Campanus of Novara's Latin translation of the Elements.⁴⁶ After the mathematician Bartolomeo Zamberti [fr; de] appended most of the extant biographical fragments about either Euclid to the preface of his 1505 translation of the Elements, subsequent publications passed on this identification.⁴⁷ Later Renaissance scholars, particularly Peter Ramus, reevaluated this claim, proving it false via issues in chronology and contradiction in early sources.⁴⁸

Medieval Arabic sources give vast amounts of information concerning Euclid's life, but are completely unverifiable.⁴⁹ Most scholars consider them of dubious authenticity;⁵⁰ Heath in particular contends that the fictionalization was done to strengthen the connection between a revered mathematician and the Arab world.⁵¹ There are also numerous anecdotal stories concerning to Euclid, all of uncertain historicity, which "picture him as a kindly and gentle old man".⁵² The best known of these is Proclus' story about Ptolemy asking Euclid if there was a quicker path to learning geometry than reading his Elements, which Euclid replied with "there is no royal road to geometry".⁵³ This anecdote is questionable since a very similar interaction between Menaechmus and Alexander the Great is recorded from Stobaeus.⁵⁴ Both accounts were written in the 5th century AD, neither indicates its source, and neither appears in ancient Greek literature.⁵⁵

Any firm dating of Euclid's activity c. 300 BC is called into question by a lack of contemporary references.⁵⁶ The earliest original reference to Euclid is in Apollonius' prefatory letter to the Conics (early 2nd century BC): "The third book of the Conics contains many astonishing theorems that are useful for both the syntheses and the determinations of number of solutions of solid loci. Most of these, and the finest of them, are novel. And when we discovered them we realized that Euclid had not made the synthesis of the locus on three and four lines but only an accidental fragment of it, and even that was not felicitously done."⁵⁷ The Elements is speculated to have been at least partly in circulation by the 3rd century BC, as Archimedes and Apollonius take several of its propositions for granted;⁵⁸ however, Archimedes employs an older variant of the theory of proportions than the one found in the Elements.⁵⁹ The oldest physical copies of material included in the Elements, dating from roughly 100 AD, can be found on papyrus fragments unearthed in an ancient rubbish heap from Oxyrhynchus, Roman Egypt. The oldest extant direct citations to the Elements in works whose dates are firmly known are not until the 2nd century AD, by Galen and Alexander of Aphrodisias; by this time it was a standard school text.⁶⁰ Some ancient Greek mathematicians mention Euclid by name, but he is usually referred to as "ὁ στοιχειώτης" ("the author of Elements").⁶¹ In the Middle Ages, some scholars contended Euclid was not a historical personage and that his name arose from a corruption of Greek mathematical terms.⁶²

Works

Elements

Main article: Euclid's Elements

Euclid is best known for his thirteen-book treatise, the Elements (Ancient Greek: Στοιχεῖα; Stoicheia), considered his magnum opus.⁶³⁶⁴ Much of its content originates from earlier mathematicians, including Eudoxus, Hippocrates of Chios, Thales and Theaetetus, while other theorems are mentioned by Plato and Aristotle.⁶⁵ It is difficult to differentiate the work of Euclid from that of his predecessors, especially because the Elements essentially superseded much earlier and now-lost Greek mathematics.⁶⁶⁶⁷ The classicist Markus Asper concludes that "apparently Euclid's achievement consists of assembling accepted mathematical knowledge into a cogent order and adding new proofs to fill in the gaps" and the historian Serafina Cuomo described it as a "reservoir of results".⁶⁸⁶⁹ Despite this, Sialaros furthers that "the remarkably tight structure of the Elements reveals authorial control beyond the limits of a mere editor".⁷⁰

The Elements does not exclusively discuss geometry as is sometimes believed.⁷¹ It is traditionally divided into three topics: plane geometry (books 1–6), basic number theory (books 7–10) and solid geometry (books 11–13)—though book 5 (on proportions) and 10 (on irrational lines) do not exactly fit this scheme.⁷²⁷³ The heart of the text is the theorems scattered throughout.⁷⁴ Using Aristotle's terminology, these may be generally separated into two categories: "first principles" and "second principles".⁷⁵ The first group includes statements labeled as a "definition" (Ancient Greek: ὅρος or ὁρισμός), "postulate" (αἴτημα), or a "common notion" (κοινὴ ἔννοια);⁷⁶⁷⁷ only the first book includes postulates—later known as axioms—and common notions.⁷⁸⁷⁹ The second group consists of propositions, presented alongside mathematical proofs and diagrams.⁸⁰ It is unknown if Euclid intended the Elements as a textbook, but its method of presentation makes it a natural fit.⁸¹ As a whole, the authorial voice remains general and impersonal.⁸²

Contents

See also: Foundations of geometry

Book 1 of the Elements is foundational for the entire text.⁸⁵ It begins with a series of 20 definitions for basic geometric concepts such as lines, angles and various regular polygons.⁸⁶ Euclid then presents 10 assumptions (see table, right), grouped into five postulates (axioms) and five common notions.⁸⁷⁸⁸ These assumptions are intended to provide the logical basis for every subsequent theorem, i.e. serve as an axiomatic system.⁸⁹⁹⁰ The common notions exclusively concern the comparison of magnitudes.⁹¹ While postulates 1 through 4 are relatively straightforward,⁹² the 5th is known as the parallel postulate and particularly famous.⁹³⁹⁴ Book 1 also includes 48 propositions, which can be loosely divided into those concerning basic theorems and constructions of plane geometry and triangle congruence (1–26); parallel lines (27–34); the area of triangles and parallelograms (35–45); and the Pythagorean theorem (46–48).⁹⁵ The last of these includes the earliest surviving proof of the Pythagorean theorem, described by Sialaros as "remarkably delicate".⁹⁶

Book 2 is traditionally understood as concerning "geometric algebra", though this interpretation has been heavily debated since the 1970s; critics describe the characterization as anachronistic, since the foundations of even nascent algebra occurred many centuries later.⁹⁷ The second book has a more focused scope and mostly provides algebraic theorems to accompany various geometric shapes.⁹⁸⁹⁹ It focuses on the area of rectangles and squares (see Quadrature), and leads up to a geometric precursor of the law of cosines.¹⁰⁰ Book 3 focuses on circles, while the 4th discusses regular polygons, especially the pentagon.¹⁰¹¹⁰² Book 5 is among the work's most important sections and presents what is usually termed as the "general theory of proportion".¹⁰³¹⁰⁴ Book 6 utilizes the "theory of ratios" in the context of plane geometry.¹⁰⁵ It is built almost entirely of its first proposition:¹⁰⁶ "Triangles and parallelograms which are under the same height are to one another as their bases".¹⁰⁷

From Book 7 onwards, the mathematician Benno Artmann [de] notes that "Euclid starts afresh. Nothing from the preceding books is used".¹⁰⁸ Number theory is covered by books 7 to 10, the former beginning with a set of 22 definitions for parity, prime numbers and other arithmetic-related concepts.¹⁰⁹ Book 7 includes the Euclidean algorithm, a method for finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers.¹¹⁰ The 8th book discusses geometric progressions, while book 9 includes the proposition, now called Euclid's theorem, that there are infinitely many prime numbers.¹¹¹ Of the Elements, book 10 is by far the largest and most complex, dealing with irrational numbers in the context of magnitudes.¹¹²

The final three books (11–13) primarily discuss solid geometry.¹¹³ By introducing a list of 37 definitions, Book 11 contextualizes the next two.¹¹⁴ Although its foundational character resembles Book 1, unlike the latter it features no axiomatic system or postulates.¹¹⁵ The three sections of Book 11 include content on solid geometry (1–19), solid angles (20–23) and parallelepipedal solids (24–37).¹¹⁶

Other works

In addition to the Elements, at least five works of Euclid have survived to the present day. They follow the same logical structure as Elements, with definitions and proved propositions.

• Catoptrics concerns the mathematical theory of mirrors, particularly the images formed in plane and spherical concave mirrors, though the attribution is sometimes questioned.¹¹⁷
• The Data (Ancient Greek: Δεδομένα), is a somewhat short text which deals with the nature and implications of "given" information in geometrical problems.¹¹⁸
• On Divisions (Ancient Greek: Περὶ Διαιρέσεων) survives only partially in Arabic translation, and concerns the division of geometrical figures into two or more equal parts or into parts in given ratios. It includes thirty-six propositions and is similar to Apollonius' Conics.¹¹⁹
• The Optics (Ancient Greek: Ὀπτικά) is the earliest surviving Greek treatise on perspective. It includes an introductory discussion of geometrical optics and basic rules of perspective.¹²⁰
• The Phaenomena (Ancient Greek: Φαινόμενα) is a treatise on spherical astronomy, survives in Greek; it is similar to On the Moving Sphere by Autolycus of Pitane, who flourished around 310 BC.¹²¹

Lost works

Four other works are credibly attributed to Euclid, but have been lost.¹²²

• The Conics (Ancient Greek: Κωνικά) was a four-book survey on conic sections, which was later superseded by Apollonius' more comprehensive treatment of the same name.¹²³¹²⁴ The work's existence is known primarily from Pappus, who asserts that the first four books of Apollonius' Conics are largely based on Euclid's earlier work.¹²⁵ Doubt has been cast on this assertion by the historian Alexander Jones [de], owing to sparse evidence and no other corroboration of Pappus' account.¹²⁶
• The Pseudaria (Ancient Greek: Ψευδάρια; lit. 'Fallacies'), was—according to Proclus in (70.1–18)—a text in geometrical reasoning, written to advise beginners in avoiding common fallacies.¹²⁷¹²⁸ Very little is known of its specific contents aside from its scope and a few extant lines.¹²⁹
• The Porisms (Ancient Greek: Πορίσματα; lit. 'Corollaries') was, based on accounts from Pappus and Proclus, probably a three-book treatise with approximately 200 propositions.¹³⁰¹³¹ The term 'porism' in this context does not refer to a corollary, but to "a third type of proposition—an intermediate between a theorem and a problem—the aim of which is to discover a feature of an existing geometrical entity, for example, to find the centre of a circle".¹³² The mathematician Michel Chasles speculated that these now-lost propositions included content related to the modern theories of transversals and projective geometry.¹³³¹³⁴
• The Surface Loci (Ancient Greek: Τόποι πρὸς ἐπιφανείᾳ) is of virtually unknown contents, aside from speculation based on the work's title.¹³⁵ Conjecture based on later accounts has suggested it discussed cones and cylinders, among other subjects.¹³⁶

Legacy

See also: List of things named after Euclid

Euclid is generally considered with Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga as among the greatest mathematicians of antiquity.¹³⁷ Many commentators cite him as one of the most influential figures in the history of mathematics.¹³⁸ The geometrical system established by the Elements long dominated the field; however, today that system is often referred to as 'Euclidean geometry' to distinguish it from other non-Euclidean geometries discovered in the early 19th century.¹³⁹ Among Euclid's many namesakes are the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid spacecraft,¹⁴⁰ the lunar crater Euclides,¹⁴¹ and the minor planet 4354 Euclides.¹⁴²

The Elements is often considered after the Bible as the most frequently translated, published, and studied book in the Western World's history.¹⁴³ With Aristotle's Metaphysics, the Elements is perhaps the most successful ancient Greek text, and was the dominant mathematical textbook in the Medieval Arab and Latin worlds.¹⁴⁴

The first English edition of the Elements was published in 1570 by Henry Billingsley and John Dee.¹⁴⁵ The mathematician Oliver Byrne published a well-known version of the Elements in 1847 entitled The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in Which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols Are Used Instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners, which included colored diagrams intended to increase its pedagogical effect.¹⁴⁶ David Hilbert authored a modern axiomatization of the Elements.¹⁴⁷ Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote that "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare."¹⁴⁸

Notes

Citations

Sources

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• Boyer, Carl B. (1991) [1968]. A History of Mathematics (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-0-471-54397-8.
• Cuomo, Serafina (2005) [2001]. Ancient Mathematics. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-71019-5.
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External links

• Works by Euclid at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Euclid at the Internet Archive
• Works by Euclid at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Euclid Collection at University College London (c.500 editions of works by Euclid), available online through the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Digital Library.
• Scans of Johan Heiberg's edition of Euclid at wilbourhall.org

• PDF copy, with the original Greek and an English translation on facing pages, University of Texas.
• All thirteen books, in several languages as Spanish, Catalan, English, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian, Russian and Chinese.

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1. Bruno 2003, p. 125. - Bruno, Leonard C. (2003) [1999]. Math and Mathematicians: The History of Math Discoveries Around the World. Baker, Lawrence W. Detroit: U X L. ISBN 978-0-7876-3813-9. OCLC 41497065. https://archive.org/details/mathmathematicia00brun ↩

2. Sialaros 2021, § "Summary". - Sialaros, Michalis (2021) [2015]. "Euclid". Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.2521. ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5. https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-2521 ↩

3. Sialaros 2021, § "Life". - Sialaros, Michalis (2021) [2015]. "Euclid". Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.2521. ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5. https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-2521 ↩

4. In modern English, 'Euclid' is pronounced as /ˈjuːklɪd/.[5] /wiki/Help:IPA/English ↩

5. OEDb. - "Euclidean (adj.)". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 18 March 2015. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Euclidean ↩

6. OEDa. - "Euclid, n". OED Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 August 2022. https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/64929 ↩

7. Bruno 2003, p. 125. - Bruno, Leonard C. (2003) [1999]. Math and Mathematicians: The History of Math Discoveries Around the World. Baker, Lawrence W. Detroit: U X L. ISBN 978-0-7876-3813-9. OCLC 41497065. https://archive.org/details/mathmathematicia00brun ↩

8. Heath 1981, p. 354. - Heath, Thomas L. (1981) [1921]. A History of Greek Mathematics. Vol. 2. New York: Dover Publications. ↩

9. Asper 2010, § para. 1. - Asper, Markus (2010). "Euclid". In Gagarin, Michael (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517072-6. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195170726.001.0001/acref-9780195170726-e-455 ↩

10. Euclid's oeuvre also includes the treatise On Divisions, which survives fragmented in a later Arabic source.[9] He authored numerous lost works as well.[9] ↩

11. Sialaros 2021, § "Life". - Sialaros, Michalis (2021) [2015]. "Euclid". Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.2521. ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5. https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-2521 ↩

12. Some of the information from Pappus of Alexandria on Euclid is now lost and was preserved in Proclus's Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements.[10] /wiki/Pappus_of_Alexandria ↩

13. Proclus was likely working from (now-lost) 4th-century BC histories of mathematics written by Theophrastus and Eudemus of Rhodes. Proclus explicitly mentions Amyclas of Heracleia, Menaechmus and his brother Dinostratus, Theudius of Magnesia, Athenaeus of Cyzicus, Hermotimus of Colophon, and Philippus of Mende, and says that Euclid came "not long after" these men. /wiki/Theophrastus ↩

14. Heath 1981, p. 354. - Heath, Thomas L. (1981) [1921]. A History of Greek Mathematics. Vol. 2. New York: Dover Publications. ↩

15. Asper 2010, § para. 1. - Asper, Markus (2010). "Euclid". In Gagarin, Michael (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517072-6. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195170726.001.0001/acref-9780195170726-e-455 ↩

16. See Heath 1981, p. 354 for an English translation on Proclus's account of Euclid's life. - Heath, Thomas L. (1981) [1921]. A History of Greek Mathematics. Vol. 2. New York: Dover Publications. ↩

17. Ball 1960, p. 52. - Ball, W.W. Rouse (1960) [1908]. A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (4th ed.). Mineola: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-20630-1. https://archive.org/details/shortaccountofhi0000ball ↩

18. Sialaros 2020, p. 141. - Sialaros, Michalis (2020). "Euclid of Alexandria: A Child of the Academy?". In Kalligas, Paul; Balla, Vassilis; Baziotopoulou-Valavani, Chloe; Karasmanis, Effie (eds.). Plato's Academy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 141–152. ISBN 978-1-108-42644-2. ↩

19. Bruno 2003, p. 125. - Bruno, Leonard C. (2003) [1999]. Math and Mathematicians: The History of Math Discoveries Around the World. Baker, Lawrence W. Detroit: U X L. ISBN 978-0-7876-3813-9. OCLC 41497065. https://archive.org/details/mathmathematicia00brun ↩

20. Goulding 2010, p. 125. - Goulding, Robert (2010). Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. ISBN 978-90-481-3542-4. ↩

21. Smorynski 2008, p. 2. - Smorynski, Craig (2008). History of Mathematics: A Supplement. New York: Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-75480-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=_zliInaOM8UC ↩

22. Ball 1960, p. 52. - Ball, W.W. Rouse (1960) [1908]. A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (4th ed.). Mineola: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-20630-1. https://archive.org/details/shortaccountofhi0000ball ↩

23. Boyer 1991, p. 100. - Boyer, Carl B. (1991) [1968]. A History of Mathematics (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-0-471-54397-8. https://archive.org/details/historyofmathema00boye ↩

24. Later Arab sources state he was a Greek born in modern-day Tyre, Lebanon, though these accounts are considered dubious and speculative.[8][4] See Heath 1981, p. 355 for an English translation of the Arab account. He was long held to have been born in Megara, but by the Renaissance it was concluded that he had been confused with the philosopher Euclid of Megara,[16] see §Identity and historicity /wiki/Tyre,_Lebanon ↩

25. Heath 1981, p. 355. - Heath, Thomas L. (1981) [1921]. A History of Greek Mathematics. Vol. 2. New York: Dover Publications. ↩

26. Goulding 2010, p. 126. - Goulding, Robert (2010). Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. ISBN 978-90-481-3542-4. ↩

27. Heath 1908, p. 2. - Heath, Thomas, ed. (1908). The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements. Vol. 1. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-60088-8. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_UhgPAAAAIAAJ/mode/2up ↩

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32. Sialaros 2020, p. 142. - Sialaros, Michalis (2020). "Euclid of Alexandria: A Child of the Academy?". In Kalligas, Paul; Balla, Vassilis; Baziotopoulou-Valavani, Chloe; Karasmanis, Effie (eds.). Plato's Academy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 141–152. ISBN 978-1-108-42644-2. ↩

33. Heath 1908, p. 2. - Heath, Thomas, ed. (1908). The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements. Vol. 1. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-60088-8. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_UhgPAAAAIAAJ/mode/2up ↩

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36. Boyer 1991, p. 100. - Boyer, Carl B. (1991) [1968]. A History of Mathematics (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-0-471-54397-8. https://archive.org/details/historyofmathema00boye ↩

37. The Musaeum would later include the famous Library of Alexandria, but it was likely founded later, during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285–246 BC).[24] /wiki/Musaeum ↩

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43. Goulding 2010, p. 120. - Goulding, Robert (2010). Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. ISBN 978-90-481-3542-4. ↩

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47. Goulding 2010, p. 120. - Goulding, Robert (2010). Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. ISBN 978-90-481-3542-4. ↩

48. Goulding 2010, p. 120. - Goulding, Robert (2010). Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. ISBN 978-90-481-3542-4. ↩

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51. Heath 1981, p. 355. - Heath, Thomas L. (1981) [1921]. A History of Greek Mathematics. Vol. 2. New York: Dover Publications. ↩

52. Boyer 1991, p. 101. - Boyer, Carl B. (1991) [1968]. A History of Mathematics (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-0-471-54397-8. https://archive.org/details/historyofmathema00boye ↩

53. Boyer 1991, p. 101. - Boyer, Carl B. (1991) [1968]. A History of Mathematics (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-0-471-54397-8. https://archive.org/details/historyofmathema00boye ↩

54. Boyer 1991, p. 96. - Boyer, Carl B. (1991) [1968]. A History of Mathematics (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-0-471-54397-8. https://archive.org/details/historyofmathema00boye ↩

55. Sialaros 2018, p. 90. - Sialaros, Michalis (2018). "How Much Does a Theorem Cost?". In Sialaros, Michalis (ed.). Revolutions and Continuity in Greek Mathematics. Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 89–106. ISBN 978-3-11-056595-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=DZRdDwAAQBAJ ↩

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58. Sialaros 2021, § "Life". - Sialaros, Michalis (2021) [2015]. "Euclid". Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.2521. ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5. https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-2521 ↩

59. Asper 2010, § para. 1. - Asper, Markus (2010). "Euclid". In Gagarin, Michael (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517072-6. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195170726.001.0001/acref-9780195170726-e-455 ↩

60. Jones 2005. - Jones, Alexander (2005). "Euclid, the Elusive Geometer" (PDF). Euclid and His Heritage Meeting, Clay Mathematics Institute, Oxford, 7–8 October 2005. https://archive.nyu.edu/bitstream/2451/63988/2/Jones%202005%20Euclid%20the%20Elusive%20Geometer%20Oxford.pdf ↩

61. Heath 1981, p. 357. - Heath, Thomas L. (1981) [1921]. A History of Greek Mathematics. Vol. 2. New York: Dover Publications. ↩

62. Ball 1960, pp. 52–53. - Ball, W.W. Rouse (1960) [1908]. A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (4th ed.). Mineola: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-20630-1. https://archive.org/details/shortaccountofhi0000ball ↩

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64. Asper 2010, § para. 2. - Asper, Markus (2010). "Euclid". In Gagarin, Michael (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517072-6. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195170726.001.0001/acref-9780195170726-e-455 ↩

65. Asper 2010, § para. 6. - Asper, Markus (2010). "Euclid". In Gagarin, Michael (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517072-6. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195170726.001.0001/acref-9780195170726-e-455 ↩

66. Taisbak & Van der Waerden 2021, § "Sources and contents of the Elements". - Taisbak, Christian Marinus; Van der Waerden, Bartel Leendert (5 January 2021). "Euclid". Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/194880/Euclid ↩

67. The Elements version available today also includes "post-Euclidean" mathematics, probably added later by later editors such as the mathematician Theon of Alexandria in the 4th century.[36] /wiki/Theon_of_Alexandria ↩

68. Cuomo 2005, p. 131. - Cuomo, Serafina (2005) [2001]. Ancient Mathematics. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-71019-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=KXuFAgAAQBAJ ↩

69. Asper 2010, § para. 6. - Asper, Markus (2010). "Euclid". In Gagarin, Michael (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517072-6. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195170726.001.0001/acref-9780195170726-e-455 ↩

70. Sialaros 2021, § "Works". - Sialaros, Michalis (2021) [2015]. "Euclid". Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.2521. ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5. https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-2521 ↩

71. Taisbak & Van der Waerden 2021, § "Sources and contents of the Elements". - Taisbak, Christian Marinus; Van der Waerden, Bartel Leendert (5 January 2021). "Euclid". Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/194880/Euclid ↩

72. Artmann 2012, p. 3. - Artmann, Benno (2012) [1999]. Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics. New York: Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4612-1412-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=F8XgBwAAQBAJ ↩

73. Asper 2010, § para. 4. - Asper, Markus (2010). "Euclid". In Gagarin, Michael (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517072-6. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195170726.001.0001/acref-9780195170726-e-455 ↩

74. Asper 2010, § para. 2. - Asper, Markus (2010). "Euclid". In Gagarin, Michael (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517072-6. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195170726.001.0001/acref-9780195170726-e-455 ↩

75. Sialaros 2021, § "The Elements". - Sialaros, Michalis (2021) [2015]. "Euclid". Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.2521. ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5. https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-2521 ↩

76. Sialaros 2021, § "The Elements". - Sialaros, Michalis (2021) [2015]. "Euclid". Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.2521. ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5. https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-2521 ↩

77. Jahnke 2010, p. 18. - Jahnke, Hans Niels (2010). "The Conjoint Origin of Proof and Theoretical Physics". In Hanna, Gila; Jahnke, Hans Niels; Pulte, Helmut (eds.). Explanation and Proof in Mathematics: Philosophical and Educational Perspectives. Berlin: Springer US. ISBN 978-1-4419-0576-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=3bLHye8kSAwC ↩

78. Taisbak & Van der Waerden 2021, § "Sources and contents of the Elements". - Taisbak, Christian Marinus; Van der Waerden, Bartel Leendert (5 January 2021). "Euclid". Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/194880/Euclid ↩

79. The use of the term "axiom" instead of "postulate" derives from the choice of Proclus to do so in his highly influential commentary on the Elements. Proclus also substituted the term "hypothesis" instead of "common notion", though preserved "postulate".[42] /wiki/Proclus ↩

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82. Asper 2010, § para. 6. - Asper, Markus (2010). "Euclid". In Gagarin, Michael (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517072-6. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195170726.001.0001/acref-9780195170726-e-455 ↩

83. Heath 1908, pp. 154–155. - Heath, Thomas, ed. (1908). The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements. Vol. 1. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-60088-8. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_UhgPAAAAIAAJ/mode/2up ↩

84. See also: Euclidean relation /wiki/Euclidean_relation ↩

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86. Artmann 2012, p. 3–4. - Artmann, Benno (2012) [1999]. Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics. New York: Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4612-1412-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=F8XgBwAAQBAJ ↩

87. Wolfe 1945, p. 4. - Wolfe, Harold E. (1945). Introduction To Non-Euclidean Geometry. New York: Dryden Press. https://archive.org/details/introductiontono031680mbp ↩

88. The distinction between these categories is not immediately clear; postulates may simply refer to geometry specifically, while common notions are more general in scope.[45] ↩

89. Pickover 2009, p. 56. - Pickover, Clifford A. (2009). The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics. New York: Sterling Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4027-5796-9. ↩

90. The mathematician Gerard Venema notes that this axiomatic system is not complete: "Euclid assumed more than just what he stated in the postulates".[47] /wiki/Axiomatic_system ↩

91. Artmann 2012, p. 4. - Artmann, Benno (2012) [1999]. Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics. New York: Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4612-1412-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=F8XgBwAAQBAJ ↩

92. See Heath 1908, pp. 195–201 for a detailed overview of postulates 1 through 4 - Heath, Thomas, ed. (1908). The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements. Vol. 1. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-60088-8. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_UhgPAAAAIAAJ/mode/2up ↩

93. Artmann 2012, p. 4. - Artmann, Benno (2012) [1999]. Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics. New York: Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4612-1412-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=F8XgBwAAQBAJ ↩

94. Since antiquity, enormous amounts of scholarship have been written about the 5th postulate, usually from mathematicians attempting to prove the postulate—which would make it different from the other, unprovable, four postulates.[49] /wiki/Proving_(math) ↩

95. Artmann 2012, p. 4. - Artmann, Benno (2012) [1999]. Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics. New York: Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4612-1412-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=F8XgBwAAQBAJ ↩

96. Sialaros 2021, § "The Elements". - Sialaros, Michalis (2021) [2015]. "Euclid". Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.2521. ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5. https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-2521 ↩

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99. Artmann 2012, p. 4. - Artmann, Benno (2012) [1999]. Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics. New York: Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4612-1412-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=F8XgBwAAQBAJ ↩

100. Katz & Michalowicz 2020, p. 59. - Katz, Victor J.; Michalowicz, Karen Dee (2020) [2005]. Historical Modules for the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics. Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America. ISBN 978-1-4704-5711-2. ↩

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102. Artmann 2012, p. 5. - Artmann, Benno (2012) [1999]. Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics. New York: Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4612-1412-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=F8XgBwAAQBAJ ↩

103. Artmann 2012, pp. 5–6. - Artmann, Benno (2012) [1999]. Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics. New York: Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4612-1412-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=F8XgBwAAQBAJ ↩

104. Much of Book 5 was probably ascertained from earlier mathematicians, perhaps Eudoxus.[41] ↩

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107. Heath 1908b, p. 191. - Heath, Thomas, ed. (1908b). The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements. Vol. 2. New York: Dover Publications. ↩

108. Artmann 2012, p. 7. - Artmann, Benno (2012) [1999]. Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics. New York: Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4612-1412-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=F8XgBwAAQBAJ ↩

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110. Artmann 2012, p. 7. - Artmann, Benno (2012) [1999]. Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics. New York: Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4612-1412-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=F8XgBwAAQBAJ ↩

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113. Artmann 2012, p. 3. - Artmann, Benno (2012) [1999]. Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics. New York: Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4612-1412-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=F8XgBwAAQBAJ ↩

114. Artmann 2012, p. 9. - Artmann, Benno (2012) [1999]. Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics. New York: Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4612-1412-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=F8XgBwAAQBAJ ↩

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