3 Quotes & Sayings By Euclid

Euclid was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in the second century b.c.e. He is most famous for his Elements, which was written around 300 b.c.e. Although it is now considered one of the best examples of Greek geometry, at the time of its writing, Euclid's work met with considerable skepticism, and the Elements was not fully accepted until the third century c.e., when it was firmly incorporated into the curriculum of all European universities. The Elements, often called "the" or "the" "Elements," is a set of thirteen books: books 1-9 contain geometric propositions and definitions; book 10 contains a collection of postulates and axioms, and book 11 contains propositions about plane and solid geometry; book 12 contains propositions about conic sections; book 13 contains propositions about other advanced topics such as projective geometry and spherical trigonometry.