Euclid
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Euclid of Alexandria (Greek: Εὐκλείδης) (about 325 BC–265 BC) was a Greek mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. Little is known about this person, but people think he lived there when Ptolemy I was the pharaoh.
Many people see Euclid as the father of geometry. His most popular work is Elements. Many people see the book as history's most successful textbook. In the book, he starts out from a small set of axioms. Euclid then shows the properties of geometric objects and of whole numbers, based on those axioms. This is the same method as modern mathematics uses. It is called the axiomatic method.
Euclid also wrote works on perspective, conic sections, spherical geometry, and possibly quadric surfaces.
It is not known where or when he is born. People also do not know why he died.
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