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Euclid, “The Elements”, 300 BC. CONTINUED-TWO.

  Here I present: Euclid, The Elements’, 300BC. CONTINUED-TWO. INTRODUCTION.               Euclid was a Greek mathematician who lived in Alexandria, EGYPT, during the reign of Ptolemy-I, placing his writing around 300 BC.  Euclid organized Greek geometry into a 13-volume set of books named The Elements’ in which the geometric relationships were derived through deductive reasoning. Thus, today’s geometry is often called Euclidean Geometry, also known as plane geometry because the relationships deal with flat surfaces. TWO MATHEMATICAL TOOLS. … Continue reading Euclid, “The Elements”, 300 BC. CONTINUED-TWO.

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Euclid, The Elements’, 300 BC, CONTINUED.

  Here I present: Euclid, The Elements’, 300 BC, CONTINUED. INTRODUCTION. Geometry is only superseded by arithmetic and algebra as basic mathematical subjects.  Here is some of my most basic geometry remembered  from student days. EUCLIDEAN AXIOMS AND POSTULATES. The Elements’ includes the following five (5) common notions. 1. Things that are equal to the … Continue reading Euclid, The Elements’, 300 BC, CONTINUED.

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Euclid, “The Elements”, 300 BC.

Harris Horblit, 100 Books Famous in the History of Science, 1964 was the topic of an earlier blog post. Here I present: Euclid, The Elements’, 300 BC. Harrison Horblit listed Euclid, The Elements’, 300 BC as the earliest of his books in the history of science. INTRODUCTION. Geometry was one of the two (2)  fields … Continue reading Euclid, “The Elements”, 300 BC.