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Euclid: The Elements - Example Papers

Euclid: The Elements

The long-lasting Nature of The Elements must make Euclid the leading math teacher of all time. However little is known of him other than he taught at Alexandria in Egypt. It is also known that he put together the elements, arranging in order many of Eudoxus's, perfecting many of Theaetetus's, and also bringing demonstrated things that had only been loosely proved by his predecessors. There is other information about Euclid given by certain authors but it is not thought to be reliable. Two different types of this extra information exists. The first type of extra information is that given by Arabian authors who state that Euclid was the son of Naucrates and that he was born in Tyre. It ...

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Euclid was a very common name around this period and this is one further difficulty that makes it hard to find information concerning Euclid of Alexandria since there are references to numerous men called Euclid in the history of this period.
There is nothing consistent in the dating given about when Euclid did all of his work but a person by the name of Itard said that situation is best summed up by the fowling three variables:
(i) Euclid was a historical character who wrote the Elements and the other works attributed to him.
(ii) Euclid was the leader of a team of mathematicians working at Alexandria. They all contributed to writing the 'complete works of Euclid', even continuing to write books under Euclid's name after his death.

(iii) Euclid was not a historical character. The 'complete works of Euclid' were written by a team of mathematicians at Alexandria who took the name Euclid from the historical character Euclid of Megara who had lived about 100 years earlier. It is ...

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