Euclid

He was born in about 330 BCHe died in about 260 BCHe was born in Alexandria Egypt

Education: It is thought that Euclid went to Plato'sAcademy in Athens.

The name Euclid means "good glory"

Euclid was a different type of mathematical scholar. He was a teacher in the Library of Alexandria who used his deductive method to teach mathematics to common people. He was not satisfied with reasoning alone or what appeared to be true (axioms). So he took works of other mathematicians before him(Thales, Plato, Pythagores and Aristotole) and proved their axioms through his deductive process. He applied rigorous, thoughful and logical systems to demonstrate what was considered to be true. All his work is compiled into 13 books called the Elements that contained axioms, propositions (theorems) and mathamatical proofs. His works are seen in many different areas of disipline, including Calculus, Geometry, Logical Mathamatics, Algebra, Law, Music, and Encyption.

Euclid's work is seen everywhere today in bridges, architecture, product design, buildings, astronomy and even technology. His theories are the building blocks for many of today's accomplisments. The design of trusses in bridges are all basic geometric shapes.

Did you know that these are more than 2,000 year old concepts?

1. You can draw a straight line between any two points.2. You can extend the line indefinitely.3. You can draw a circle using any line segment as the radius and one end point as the center.4. All right angles are equal.5. Given a line and a point, you can draw only one line through the point that is parallel to the first line.

1. Things which are equal to the same thing are alsoequal to one another.2. If equals are added to equals, the sums are equal.3. If equals are subtracted from equals, the remainders are equal.4. Things which coincide with one another are equal to one another.5. The whole is greater than the part.

EUCLID OF ALEXANDRIA

Father of Geometry

Works Citedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidhttp://www.famousscientists.org/euclid/http://malini-math.blogspot.com/2009/11/euclid-greek-mathematician-euclids.htmlhttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/EuclideanGeometry.htmlhttp://www.math.rutgers.edu/~greenfie/gs2004/euclid.html

"Lincoln, you will never be a good lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means"~ President Abraham Lincoln

Little is known about his early life

and other works

Q.E.D

Algorithms

RSA

public-key encryptions

GCF and HCM

Contribution to Geometry

Contribution to Mathematics

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