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Euclidean Geometry
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Geometry was thoroughly organized in about 300 BC, when the Greek
mathematician Euclid gathered what was known at the time, added original work of
his own, and arranged 465 propositions into 13 books, called 'Elements'. The
books covered not only plane and solid geometry but also much of what is no ....
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....losophers asked that no one come to their schools who had not
learned the 'Elements' of Euclid. There were, and still are, many who resisted
this kind of education. It is said that Ptolemy I asked Euclid for an easier way
to learn the material. Euclid told him there was no "royal road" to geometry
instead he told Ptolemy you will not learn what geometry is all about. What you
will learn is the basic shapes of some of the figures dealt with in geometry and
a few facts about them. It takes a geome.... |
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