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Biography
Very few original references to Euclid survive, so little is known about his life. He was likely born c. 325 BC, although the place and circumstances of both his birth and death are unknown and may only be estimated roughly relative to other people mentioned with him. He is mentioned by name, though rarely, by other Greek mathematicians from Archimedes (c.â287 BC â c.â212 BC) onward, and is usually referred to as "á½ ÏÏοιÏειÏÏηÏ" ("the author of Elements").Heath (1981), p. 357 The few historical references to Euclid were written by Proclus c. 450 AD, centuries after Euclid lived.Joyce, David. Euclid. Clark University Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. weblinkA detailed biography of Euclid is given by Arabian authors, mentioning, for example, a birth town of Tyre. This biography is generally believed to be fictitious.O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Euclid of Alexandria"; Heath 1956, p. 4; Heath 1981, p. 355. If he came from Alexandria, he would have known the Serapeum of Alexandria, and the Library of Alexandria, and may have worked there during his time. Euclid's arrival in Alexandria came about ten years after its founding by Alexander the Great, which means he arrived c. 322 BC.BOOK, Math and mathematicians : the history of math discoveries around the world, Bruno, Leonard C., 2003, 1999, U X L, Baker, Lawrence W., 978-0-7876-3813-9, Detroit, Mich., 126, 41497065,weblink Proclus introduces Euclid only briefly in his Commentary on the Elements. According to Proclus, Euclid supposedly belonged to Plato's "persuasion" and brought together the Elements, drawing on prior work of Eudoxus of Cnidus and of several pupils of Plato (particularly Theaetetus and Philip of Opus.) Proclus believes that Euclid is not much younger than these, and that he must have lived during the time of Ptolemy I (c. 367 BC â 282 BC) because he was mentioned by Archimedes. Although the apparent citation of Euclid by Archimedes has been judged to be an interpolation by later editors of his works, it is still believed that Euclid wrote his works before Archimedes wrote his.Proclus, p. XXX; O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Euclid of Alexandria" Proclus later retells a story that, when Ptolemy I asked if there was a shorter path to learning geometry than Euclid's Elements, "Euclid replied there is no royal road to geometry."Proclus, p. 57 This anecdote is questionable since it is similar to a story told about Menaechmus and Alexander the Great.Boyer, p. 96.(File:Euclidis quae supersunt omnia.tif|thumb|Euclidis quae supersunt omnia (1704))Euclid died c. 270 BC, presumably in Alexandria. In the only other key reference to Euclid, Pappus of Alexandria (c. 320 AD) briefly mentioned that Apollonius "spent a very long time with the pupils of Euclid at Alexandria, and it was thus that he acquired such a scientific habit of thought" c. 247â222 BC.Heath (1956), p. 2.WEB,weblink Conic Sections in Ancient Greece, Because the lack of biographical information is unusual for the period (extensive biographies being available for most significant Greek mathematicians several centuries before and after Euclid), some researchers have proposed that Euclid was not a historical personage, and that his works were written by a team of mathematicians who took the name Euclid from Euclid of Megara (à la Bourbaki). However, this hypothesis is not well accepted by scholars and there is little evidence in its favor. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Euclid of Alexandria"; BOOK, Les livres arithmétiques d'Euclide, Jean Itard, 1962,Elements
File:Oxyrhynchus papyrus with Euclid's Elements.jpg|right|thumb|250px|One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100 (P. Oxy. 29). The diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5.WEB,weblink One of the Oldest Extant Diagrams from Euclid, Bill Casselman (mathematician), Bill CasselmanBill Casselman (mathematician), Bill Casselman{{anchor|The Elements|Elements}}Although many of the results in Elements originated with earlier mathematicians, one of Euclid's accomplishments was to present them in a single, logically coherent framework, making it easy to use and easy to reference, including a system of rigorous mathematical proofs that remains the basis of mathematics 23 centuries later.Struik p. 51 ("their logical structure has influenced scientific thinking perhaps more than any other text in the world").There is no mention of Euclid in the earliest remaining copies of the Elements. Most of the copies say they are "from the edition of Theon" or the "lectures of Theon",Heath (1981), p. 360. while the text considered to be primary, held by the Vatican, mentions no author. Proclus provides the only reference ascribing the Elements to Euclid.Although best known for its geometric results, the Elements also includes number theory. It considers the connection between perfect numbers and Mersenne primes (known as the EuclidâEuler theorem), the infinitude of prime numbers, Euclid's lemma on factorization (which leads to the fundamental theorem of arithmetic on uniqueness of prime factorizations), and the Euclidean algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers.The geometrical system described in the Elements was long known simply as geometry, and was considered to be the only geometry possible. Today, however, that system is often referred to as Euclidean geometry to distinguish it from other so-called non-Euclidean geometries discovered in the 19th century.Fragments
{{See also|Oxyrhynchus Papyri}}The Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 29 (P. Oxy. 29) is a fragment of the second book of the Elements of Euclid, unearthed by Grenfell and Hunt 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. More recent scholarship suggests a date of 75â125 AD.BOOK, David, Fowler, 1999, The Mathematics of Plato's Academy, Second, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 978-0-19-850258-6,weblink The fragment contains the statement of the 5th proposition of Book 2, which in the translation of T. L. Heath reads:Bill Casselman, One of the oldest extant diagrams from Euclid{{clear}}Other works
File:Euclid Dodecahedron 1.svg|thumb|Euclid's construction of a regular dodecahedrondodecahedron(File:Cube to dodecahedron 240px.gif|thumb|Construction of a dodecahedron by placing faces on the edges of a cube.)In addition to the Elements, at least five works of Euclid have survived to the present day. They follow the same logical structure as Elements, with definitions and proved propositions.- Data deals with the nature and implications of "given" information in geometrical problems; the subject matter is closely related to the first four books of the Elements.
- On Divisions of Figures, which survives only partially in Arabic translation, concerns the division of geometrical figures into two or more equal parts or into parts in given ratios. It is similar to a first-century AD work by Heron of Alexandria.
- Catoptrics, which concerns the mathematical theory of mirrors, particularly the images formed in plane and spherical concave mirrors. The attribution is held to be anachronistic however by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson who name Theon of Alexandria as a more likely author.O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Theon of Alexandria"
- Phaenomena, a treatise on spherical astronomy, survives in Greek; it is quite similar to On the Moving Sphere by Autolycus of Pitane, who flourished around 310 BC.
- Optics is the earliest surviving Greek treatise on perspective. In its definitions Euclid follows the Platonic tradition that vision is caused by discrete rays which emanate from the eye. One important definition is the fourth: "Things seen under a greater angle appear greater, and those under a lesser angle less, while those under equal angles appear equal." In the 36 propositions that follow, Euclid relates the apparent size of an object to its distance from the eye and investigates the apparent shapes of cylinders and cones when viewed from different angles. Proposition 45 is interesting, proving that for any two unequal magnitudes, there is a point from which the two appear equal. Pappus believed these results to be important in astronomy and included Euclid's Optics, along with his Phaenomena, in the Little Astronomy, a compendium of smaller works to be studied before the Syntaxis (Almagest) of Claudius Ptolemy.
Lost works
Other works are credibly attributed to Euclid, but have been lost.- Conics was a work on conic sections that was later extended by Apollonius of Perga into his famous work on the subject. It is likely that the first four books of Apollonius's work come directly from Euclid. According to Pappus, "Apollonius, having completed Euclid's four books of conics and added four others, handed down eight volumes of conics." The Conics of Apollonius quickly supplanted the former work, and by the time of Pappus, Euclid's work was already lost.
- Porisms might have been an outgrowth of Euclid's work with conic sections, but the exact meaning of the title is controversial.
- Pseudaria, or Book of Fallacies, was an elementary text about errors in reasoning.
- Surface Loci concerned either loci (sets of points) on surfaces or loci which were themselves surfaces; under the latter interpretation, it has been hypothesized that the work might have dealt with quadric surfaces.
- Several works on mechanics are attributed to Euclid by Arabic sources. On the Heavy and the Light contains, in nine definitions and five propositions, Aristotelian notions of moving bodies and the concept of specific gravity. On the Balance treats the theory of the lever in a similarly Euclidean manner, containing one definition, two axioms, and four propositions. A third fragment, on the circles described by the ends of a moving lever, contains four propositions. These three works complement each other in such a way that it has been suggested that they are remnants of a single treatise on mechanics written by Euclid.
Legacy
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid spacecraft was named in his honor.WEB, NASA Delivers Detectors for ESA's Euclid Spacecraft,weblink NASA, 2017,See also
- Axiomatic method
- Euclid's orchard
- Euclidean algorithm
- Euclidean geometry
- Euclidean relation
- Extended Euclidean algorithm
- List of topics named after Euclid
References
{{reflist}}Works cited
- Artmann, Benno (1999). Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics. New York: Springer. {{ISBN|0-387-98423-2}}.
- BOOK, Ball, W.W. Rouse, W. W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, 1908, 4th, 1960, Dover Publications
- Heath, Thomas L. (1981). A History of Greek Mathematics, 2 Vols. New York: Dover Publications. {{ISBN|0-486-24073-8|0-486-24074-6}}.
- Kline, Morris (1980). Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-502754-X}}.
- {{MacTutor Biography|id=Euclid|title=Euclid of Alexandria}}
- {{MacTutor Biography|id=Euclid|title=Theon of Alexandria}}
- Proclus, A commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, translated by Glenn Raymond Morrow, Princeton University Press, 1992. {{ISBN|978-0-691-02090-7}}.
- BOOK, Dirk J., Struik, Dirk Jan Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics, 1967, Dover Publications, 978-0-486-60255-4,
- WEB, Euclid,weblink
Further reading
- BOOK, DeLacy, Estelle Allen, Euclid and Geometry, 1963, Franklin Watts, New York,
- BOOK, Knorr, Wilbur Richard, The Evolution of the Euclidean Elements: A Study of the Theory of Incommensurable Magnitudes and Its Significance for Early Greek Geometry, 1975, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland, 978-90-277-0509-9,
- BOOK, Mueller, Ian, Philosophy of Mathematics and Deductive Structure in Euclid's Elements, 1981, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 978-0-262-13163-6,
- BOOK, Reid, Constance, A Long Way from Euclid, 1963, Crowell, New York,
- BOOK, Szabó, Ãrpád, The Beginnings of Greek Mathematics, 1978, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland, 978-90-277-0819-9, A.M. Ungar, trans,
External links
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- Euclid's Elements, All thirteen books, with interactive diagrams using Java. Clark University
- Euclid's Elements, with the original Greek and an English translation on facing pages (includes PDF version for printing). University of Texas.
- Euclid's Elements, books IâVI, in English pdf, in a Project Gutenberg Victorian textbook edition with diagrams.
- Euclid's Elements, All thirteen books, in several languages as Spanish, Catalan, English, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian, Russian and Chinese.
- Elementa Geometriae 1482, Venice. From Rare Book Room.
- Elementa 888 AD, Byzantine. From Rare Book Room.
- Texts on Ancient Mathematics and Mathematical Astronomy PDF scans (Note: many are very large files). Includes editions and translations of Euclid's Elements, Data, and Optica, Proclus's Commentary on Euclid, and other historical sources.
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