Euclid: the Father of Geometry

In Alexandria, the second largest city in Egypt, one of the superlative mathematicians to ever exist on Earth was born in 325 BCE. This mathematicians name was Euclid. He is said to be the son of Naucrates. Euclid was named after Euclid of Megara, a philosopher who lived one hundred years forrader him. Not only was Euclid a mathematician and a scientist, he was an author as well. Euclids most well-known writing was a series of books called The Elements.The Elements were on subjects kindred circles, irrational numbers, 3D geometry, plane geometry and number theory. The Elements consist of five postulates and definitions. These books explained simple theories to detailed explanations of what a line is. Although he did not discover most of these he was the first to publish a series about them. Euclid also wrote Data, which looked at what properties of figures can be deducted when other properties were given. He wrote On Divisions which looked at constructions to sort out a figure in to two parts with area of given ratio. Optics was the first Greek book on perspective. Phaenomena was about mathematical astronomy. Euclid also wrote legion(predicate) other books that were lost in history such as Surface Loci, Porisms, Elements of Music, Conics, and Book of Fallacies. He is considered to be the father of geometry because of the theories he discussed in his books.Some of which still gestate not been proven to be true in this day and age. Although there is very little known about Euclid he is also considered to be the greatest math teacher in the world. In fact after he died in 265 BCE his fellow mathematicians continued to write books under his name.Worked sited http//farside. ph. utexas. edu/euclid. hypertext mark-up language http//www. e271. net/marina/euclid. html Quotes from http//www-gap. dcs. st-and. ac. uk/history/Biographies/Euclid. html