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</div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle References subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Citations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Citations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" 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Available in 163 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-163" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">163 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklides" title="Euklides – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Euklides" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Afrikaans</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklid" title="Euklid – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Euklid" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8B%A9%E1%8A%AD%E1%88%8A%E1%8B%B5" title="ዩክሊድ – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ዩክሊድ" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B3" title="إقليدس – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="إقليدس" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides" title="Euclides – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Euclides" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1" title="ইউক্লিড – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="ইউক্লিড" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides" title="Euclides – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Euclides" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides" title="Euclides – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Euclides" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-av mw-list-item"><a href="https://av.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Эвклид – Avaric" lang="av" hreflang="av" data-title="Эвклид" data-language-autonym="Авар" data-language-local-name="Avaric" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Авар</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evklid" title="Evklid – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Evklid" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%82%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B3" title="اوقلیدس – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="اوقلیدس" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89uclid" title="Éuclid – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Éuclid" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1" title="ইউক্লিড – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ইউক্লিড" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukleides" title="Eukleides – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Eukleides" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Евклид – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Евклид" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%9E%D0%BA%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B4" title="Эўклід – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Эўклід" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%9E%D0%BA%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B4" title="Эўклід – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Эўклід" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A1" title="यूक्लिड – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="यूक्लिड" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bi mw-list-item"><a href="https://bi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Bislama" lang="bi" hreflang="bi" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Bislama" data-language-local-name="Bislama" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bislama</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Евклид – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Евклид" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%A1%E0%BD%BC%E0%BD%A0%E0%BD%B4%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%81%E0%BD%BA%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A3%E0%BD%BA%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%8F%E0%BD%BA%E0%BC%8D" title="ཡོའུ་ཁེ་ལེ་ཏེ། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="ཡོའུ་ཁེ་ལེ་ཏེ།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklid" title="Euklid – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Euklid" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklides" title="Euklides – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Euklides" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bxr mw-list-item"><a href="https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Евклид – Russia Buriat" lang="bxr" hreflang="bxr" data-title="Евклид" data-language-autonym="Буряад" data-language-local-name="Russia Buriat" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Буряад</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides" title="Euclides – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Euclides" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Евклид – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Евклид" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukleid%C3%A9s" title="Eukleidés – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Eukleidés" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tum mw-list-item"><a href="https://tum.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Tumbuka" lang="tum" hreflang="tum" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="ChiTumbuka" data-language-local-name="Tumbuka" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiTumbuka</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklid" title="Euklid – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Euklid" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklid" title="Euklid – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Euklid" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukleides" title="Eukleides – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Eukleides" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CF%85%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B7%CF%82" title="Ευκλείδης – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ευκλείδης" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides" title="Euclides – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Euclides" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%C5%ADklido" title="Eŭklido – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Eŭklido" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ext mw-list-item"><a href="https://ext.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uclidi" title="Uclidi – Extremaduran" lang="ext" hreflang="ext" data-title="Uclidi" data-language-autonym="Estremeñu" data-language-local-name="Extremaduran" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Estremeñu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklides" title="Euklides – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Euklides" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B3" title="اقلیدس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اقلیدس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Fiji Hindi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclide" title="Euclide – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Euclide" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklides" title="Euklides – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Euklides" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoicl%C3%ADd%C3%A9as" title="Eoiclídéas – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Eoiclídéas" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides" title="Euclides – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Euclides" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%90%E5%87%A0%E9%87%8C%E5%BE%97" title="歐几里得 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="歐几里得" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>贛語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%AF%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%95%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%B2%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%A1" title="યુક્લિડ – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="યુક્લિડ" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ગુજરાતી</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xal mw-list-item"><a href="https://xal.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Эвклид – Kalmyk" lang="xal" hreflang="xal" data-title="Эвклид" data-language-autonym="Хальмг" data-language-local-name="Kalmyk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Хальмг</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%90%EC%9A%B0%ED%81%B4%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4%EB%8D%B0%EC%8A%A4" title="에우클레이데스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="에우클레이데스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%BE%D5%AF%D5%AC%D5%AB%D5%A4%D5%A5%D5%BD" title="Էվկլիդես – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Էվկլիդես" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A1" title="यूक्लिड – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="यूक्लिड" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklid" title="Euklid – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Euklid" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklid" title="Euklid – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Euklid" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklides" title="Euklides – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Euklides" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklides" title="Euklides – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Euklides" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclide" title="Euclide – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Euclide" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xh mw-list-item"><a href="https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Euclid" title="U-Euclid – Xhosa" lang="xh" hreflang="xh" data-title="U-Euclid" data-language-autonym="IsiXhosa" data-language-local-name="Xhosa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>IsiXhosa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evkl%C3%AD%C3%B0" title="Evklíð – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Evklíð" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclide" title="Euclide – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Euclide" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93%D7%A1" title="אוקלידס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אוקלידס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklides" title="Euklides – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Euklides" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kbp mw-list-item"><a href="https://kbp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Kabiye" lang="kbp" hreflang="kbp" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Kabɩyɛ" data-language-local-name="Kabiye" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kabɩyɛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AF%E0%B3%82%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%8D" title="ಯೂಕ್ಲಿಡ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಯೂಕ್ಲಿಡ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%99%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%94" title="ევკლიდე – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ევკლიდე" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Евклид – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Евклид" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklides" title="Euklides – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Euklides" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gcr mw-list-item"><a href="https://gcr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89klid" title="Éklid – Guianan Creole" lang="gcr" hreflang="gcr" data-title="Éklid" data-language-autonym="Kriyòl gwiyannen" data-language-local-name="Guianan Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kriyòl gwiyannen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iql%C3%AEdes" title="Iqlîdes – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Iqlîdes" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Евклид – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Евклид" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides" title="Euclides – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Euclides" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eikl%C4%ABds" title="Eiklīds – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Eiklīds" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lez mw-list-item"><a href="https://lez.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Евклид – Lezghian" lang="lez" hreflang="lez" data-title="Евклид" data-language-autonym="Лезги" data-language-local-name="Lezghian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Лезги</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklidas_Aleksandrietis" title="Euklidas Aleksandrietis – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Euklidas Aleksandrietis" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclide" title="Euclide – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Euclide" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides" title="Euclides – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Euclides" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-olo mw-list-item"><a href="https://olo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukleides" title="Eukleides – Livvi-Karelian" lang="olo" hreflang="olo" data-title="Eukleides" data-language-autonym="Livvinkarjala" data-language-local-name="Livvi-Karelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Livvinkarjala</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jbo mw-list-item"><a href="https://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/euklides" title="euklides – Lojban" lang="jbo" hreflang="jbo" data-title="euklides" data-language-autonym="La .lojban." data-language-local-name="Lojban" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>La .lojban.</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukleid%C3%A9sz_(matematikus)" title="Eukleidész (matematikus) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Eukleidész (matematikus)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Евклид – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Евклид" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoklida" title="Eoklida – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Eoklida" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8D" title="യൂക്ലിഡ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="യൂക്ലിഡ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewklide" title="Ewklide – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="Ewklide" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A1" title="युक्लिड – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="युक्लिड" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%99%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%94" title="ევკლიდე – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ევკლიდე" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3" title="ايكليديس – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ايكليديس" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mwl mw-list-item"><a href="https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouclides" title="Ouclides – Mirandese" lang="mwl" hreflang="mwl" data-title="Ouclides" data-language-autonym="Mirandés" data-language-local-name="Mirandese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Mirandés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Евклид – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Евклид" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%9A%E1%80%B0%E1%80%80%E1%80%9C%E1%80%85%E1%80%BA" title="ယူကလစ် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ယူကလစ်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides_van_Alexandri%C3%AB" title="Euclides van Alexandrië – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Euclides van Alexandrië" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A6" title="युक्लिद – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="युक्लिद" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A6%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%87%E3%82%B9" title="エウクレイデス – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="エウクレイデス" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Евклид – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Евклид" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklid" title="Euklid – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Euklid" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklid" title="Euklid – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Euklid" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evklid" title="Evklid – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Evklid" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides" title="Euclides – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Euclides" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AD%9F%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%95%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B2%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AD%8D" title="ୟୁକ୍ଲିଡ୍ – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="ୟୁକ୍ଲିଡ୍" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ଓଡ଼ିଆ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuukiliid" title="Yuukiliid – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="Yuukiliid" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oromoo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevklid" title="Yevklid – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Yevklid" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AF%E0%A9%82%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%A1" title="ਯੂਕਲਿਡ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਯੂਕਲਿਡ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B3" title="اقلیدس – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="اقلیدس" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B3" title="اقليدس – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="اقليدس" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jam mw-list-item"><a href="https://jam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Jamaican Creole English" lang="jam" hreflang="jam" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Patois" data-language-local-name="Jamaican Creole English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Patois</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklid" title="Euklid – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Euklid" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklides" title="Euklides – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Euklides" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides" title="Euclides – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Euclides" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kaa mw-list-item"><a href="https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evklid" title="Evklid – Kara-Kalpak" lang="kaa" hreflang="kaa" data-title="Evklid" data-language-autonym="Qaraqalpaqsha" data-language-local-name="Kara-Kalpak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qaraqalpaqsha</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ksh mw-list-item"><a href="https://ksh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklid_va_Alexandria" title="Euklid va Alexandria – Colognian" lang="ksh" hreflang="ksh" data-title="Euklid va Alexandria" data-language-autonym="Ripoarisch" data-language-local-name="Colognian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ripoarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B4" title="Евклід – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Евклід" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Евклид – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Евклид" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Эклид – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Эклид" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szy mw-list-item"><a href="https://szy.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-ci-li-te" title="U-ci-li-te – Sakizaya" lang="szy" hreflang="szy" data-title="U-ci-li-te" data-language-autonym="Sakizaya" data-language-local-name="Sakizaya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sakizaya</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sat mw-list-item"><a href="https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%A4%E1%B1%A3%E1%B1%A0%E1%B1%9E%E1%B1%A4%E1%B1%B0" title="ᱤᱣᱠᱞᱤᱰ – Santali" lang="sat" hreflang="sat" data-title="ᱤᱣᱠᱞᱤᱰ" data-language-autonym="ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ" data-language-local-name="Santali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklidi" title="Euklidi – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Euklidi" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidi" title="Euclidi – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Euclidi" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B3" title="اقليدس – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="اقليدس" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukleides_z_Alexandrie" title="Eukleides z Alexandrie – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Eukleides z Alexandrie" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evklid" title="Evklid – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Evklid" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklides" title="Euklides – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Euklides" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%82%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B3" title="ئیقلیدس – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ئیقلیدس" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Еуклид – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Еуклид" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklid" title="Euklid – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Euklid" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukleides" title="Eukleides – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Eukleides" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euklides" title="Euklides – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Euklides" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides" title="Euclides – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Euclides" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AF%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B3%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%81" title="யூக்ளிடு – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="யூக்ளிடு" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shi mw-list-item"><a href="https://shi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uklid_(Euclide)" title="Uklid (Euclide) – Tachelhit" lang="shi" hreflang="shi" data-title="Uklid (Euclide)" data-language-autonym="Taclḥit" data-language-local-name="Tachelhit" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Taclḥit</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Эуклид – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Эуклид" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%8D" title="యూక్లిడ్ – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="యూక్లిడ్" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%94" title="ยุคลิด – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ยุคลิด" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D2%9B%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%81" title="Уқлидус – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Уқлидус" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96klid" title="Öklid – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Öklid" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B4" title="Евклід – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Евклід" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B3" title="اقلیدس – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="اقلیدس" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-za mw-list-item"><a href="https://za.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Zhuang" lang="za" hreflang="za" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Vahcuengh" data-language-local-name="Zhuang" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vahcuengh</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclide" title="Euclide – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="Euclide" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vèneto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vep mw-list-item"><a href="https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evklid" title="Evklid – Veps" lang="vep" hreflang="vep" data-title="Evklid" data-language-autonym="Vepsän kel’" data-language-local-name="Veps" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vepsän kel’</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" title="Euclid – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Euclid" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vo mw-list-item"><a href="https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukleides" title="Eukleides – Volapük" lang="vo" hreflang="vo" data-title="Eukleides" data-language-autonym="Volapük" data-language-local-name="Volapük" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Volapük</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fiu-vro mw-list-item"><a href="https://fiu-vro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukleides" title="Eukleides – Võro" lang="vro" hreflang="vro" data-title="Eukleides" data-language-autonym="Võro" data-language-local-name="Võro" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Võro</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-classical mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%90%E5%B9%BE%E9%87%8C%E5%BE%97" title="歐幾里得 – Literary Chinese" lang="lzh" hreflang="lzh" data-title="歐幾里得" data-language-autonym="文言" data-language-local-name="Literary Chinese" 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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the philosopher, see <a href="/wiki/Euclid_of_Megara" title="Euclid of Megara">Euclid of Megara</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Euclid_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Euclid (disambiguation)">Euclid (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data"><abbr title="floruit ('flourished' – known to have been active at a particular time or during a particular period)">fl.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 300</span> BC</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol 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(";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_Elements" title="Euclid's Elements"><i>Elements</i></a></li><li><i><a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_Optics" title="Euclid's Optics">Optics</a></i></li><li><i><a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_Data" title="Euclid's Data">Data</a></i></li></ul></div> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">Various concepts</span></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Euclidean_geometry" title="Euclidean geometry">Euclidean geometry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euclidean_algorithm" title="Euclidean algorithm">Euclidean algorithm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_theorem" title="Euclid's theorem">Euclid's theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euclidean_relation" title="Euclidean relation">Euclidean relation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pythagorean_triple#Generating_a_triple" title="Pythagorean triple">Euclid's formula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Euclid" title="List of things named after Euclid">Numerous other namesakes</a></li></ul> </div></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">Mathematics</a> (<a href="/wiki/Geometry" title="Geometry">Geometry</a>)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Euclid</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/j/: 'y' in 'yes'">j</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span></span>/</a></span></span>; <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Εὐκλείδης</span>; <abbr title="floruit ('flourished' – known to have been active at a particular time or during a particular period)">fl.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 300</span> BC) was an <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">ancient Greek</a> <a href="/wiki/Mathematician" title="Mathematician">mathematician</a> active as a <a href="/wiki/Geometer" class="mw-redirect" title="Geometer">geometer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Logician" class="mw-redirect" title="Logician">logician</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage125_125]_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage125_125]-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Considered the "father of geometry",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Summary"_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Summary"-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he is chiefly known for the <i><a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_Elements" title="Euclid's Elements">Elements</a></i> treatise, which established the foundations of <a href="/wiki/Geometry" title="Geometry">geometry</a> that largely dominated the field until the early 19th century. His system, now referred to as <a href="/wiki/Euclidean_geometry" title="Euclidean geometry">Euclidean geometry</a>, involved innovations in combination with a synthesis of theories from earlier Greek mathematicians, including <a href="/wiki/Eudoxus_of_Cnidus" title="Eudoxus of Cnidus">Eudoxus of Cnidus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hippocrates_of_Chios" title="Hippocrates of Chios">Hippocrates of Chios</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thales" class="mw-redirect" title="Thales">Thales</a> and <a href="/wiki/Theaetetus_(mathematician)" title="Theaetetus (mathematician)">Theaetetus</a>. With <a href="/wiki/Archimedes" title="Archimedes">Archimedes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Apollonius_of_Perga" title="Apollonius of Perga">Apollonius of Perga</a>, Euclid is generally considered among the greatest mathematicians of antiquity, and one of the most influential in the <a href="/wiki/History_of_mathematics" title="History of mathematics">history of mathematics</a>. </p><p>Very little is known of Euclid's life, and most information comes from the scholars <a href="/wiki/Proclus" title="Proclus">Proclus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pappus_of_Alexandria" title="Pappus of Alexandria">Pappus of Alexandria</a> many centuries later. <a href="/wiki/Mathematics_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world" title="Mathematics in the medieval Islamic world">Medieval Islamic mathematicians</a> invented a fanciful biography, and medieval <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> and early <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> scholars mistook him for the earlier philosopher <a href="/wiki/Euclid_of_Megara" title="Euclid of Megara">Euclid of Megara</a>. It is now generally accepted that he spent his career in <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a> and lived around 300 BC, after <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>'s students and before Archimedes. There is some speculation that Euclid studied at the <a href="/wiki/Platonic_Academy" title="Platonic Academy">Platonic Academy</a> and later taught at the <a href="/wiki/Musaeum" class="mw-redirect" title="Musaeum">Musaeum</a>; he is regarded as bridging the earlier Platonic tradition in <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a> with the later tradition of Alexandria. </p><p>In the <i>Elements</i>, Euclid deduced the <a href="/wiki/Theorem" title="Theorem">theorems</a> from a small set of <a href="/wiki/Axiom" title="Axiom">axioms</a>. He also wrote works on <a href="/wiki/Perspective_(visual)" class="mw-redirect" title="Perspective (visual)">perspective</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conic_section" title="Conic section">conic sections</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spherical_geometry" title="Spherical geometry">spherical geometry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Number_theory" title="Number theory">number theory</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rigour#Mathematical_proof" title="Rigour">mathematical rigour</a>. In addition to the <i>Elements</i>, Euclid wrote a central early text in the <a href="/wiki/Optics" title="Optics">optics</a> field, <i><a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_Optics" title="Euclid's Optics">Optics</a></i>, and lesser-known works including <i><a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_Data" title="Euclid's Data">Data</a></i> and <i>Phaenomena</i>. Euclid's authorship of <i>On Divisions of Figures</i> and <i>Catoptrics</i> has been questioned. He is thought to have written many <a href="#Lost_works">lost works</a>. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886046785">.mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}</style><div class="toclimit-3"><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Traditional_narrative">Traditional narrative</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:0_Chambre_de_Rapha%C3%ABl_-_%C3%89cole_d%27Ath%C3%A8nes_-_Mus%C3%A9es_du_Vatican.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/0_Chambre_de_Rapha%C3%ABl_-_%C3%89cole_d%27Ath%C3%A8nes_-_Mus%C3%A9es_du_Vatican.JPG/330px-0_Chambre_de_Rapha%C3%ABl_-_%C3%89cole_d%27Ath%C3%A8nes_-_Mus%C3%A9es_du_Vatican.JPG" decoding="async" width="310" height="268" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/0_Chambre_de_Rapha%C3%ABl_-_%C3%89cole_d%27Ath%C3%A8nes_-_Mus%C3%A9es_du_Vatican.JPG/500px-0_Chambre_de_Rapha%C3%ABl_-_%C3%89cole_d%27Ath%C3%A8nes_-_Mus%C3%A9es_du_Vatican.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/0_Chambre_de_Rapha%C3%ABl_-_%C3%89cole_d%27Ath%C3%A8nes_-_Mus%C3%A9es_du_Vatican.JPG/960px-0_Chambre_de_Rapha%C3%ABl_-_%C3%89cole_d%27Ath%C3%A8nes_-_Mus%C3%A9es_du_Vatican.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Detail of <a href="/wiki/Raphael" title="Raphael">Raphael</a>'s impression of Euclid, teaching students in <i><a href="/wiki/The_School_of_Athens" title="The School of Athens">The School of Athens</a></i> (1509–1511)</figcaption></figure> <p>The English name 'Euclid' is the anglicized version of the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> name <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">Eukleídes</i></span> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Εὐκλείδης</span></span>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is derived from '<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eu-#English" class="extiw" title="wikt:eu-">eu-</a>' (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B5%E1%BD%96#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="wikt:εὖ">εὖ</a>; 'well') and 'klês' (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/#-κλῆς" class="extiw" title="wikt:">-κλῆς</a>; 'fame'), meaning "renowned, glorious".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''OED''b_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''OED''b-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In English, by <a href="/wiki/Metonymy" title="Metonymy">metonymy</a>, 'Euclid' can mean his most well-known work, <a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_Elements" title="Euclid's Elements">Euclid's <i>Elements</i></a>, or a copy thereof,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''OED''a_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''OED''a-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is sometimes synonymous with 'geometry'.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage125_125]_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage125_125]-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As with many <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_mathematicians" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek mathematicians">ancient Greek mathematicians</a>, the details of Euclid's life are mostly unknown.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1981354_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1981354-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is accepted as the author of four mostly extant treatises—the <i>Elements</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_Optics" title="Euclid's Optics">Optics</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_Data" title="Euclid's Data">Data</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_Phaenomena" title="Euclid's Phaenomena">Phaenomena</a></i>—but besides this, there is nothing known for certain of him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The traditional narrative mainly follows the 5th century AD account by <a href="/wiki/Proclus" title="Proclus">Proclus</a> in his <i>Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements</i>, as well as a few anecdotes from <a href="/wiki/Pappus_of_Alexandria" title="Pappus of Alexandria">Pappus of Alexandria</a> in the early 4th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Proclus, Euclid lived shortly after several of <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>'s (<span style="white-space:nowrap;"><abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 347</span> BC) followers and before the mathematician <a href="/wiki/Archimedes" title="Archimedes">Archimedes</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 287</span> – c.<span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 212</span> BC);<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> specifically, Proclus placed Euclid during the rule of <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter" title="Ptolemy I Soter">Ptolemy I</a> (<span style="white-space:nowrap;"><abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 305/304–282</span> BC).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1981354_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1981354-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Euclid's birthdate is unknown; some scholars estimate around 330<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52]_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52]-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2020141_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2020141-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or 325 BC,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage125_125]_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage125_125]-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010125_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010125-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but others refrain from speculating.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmorynski20082_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmorynski20082-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is presumed that he was of Greek descent,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52]_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52]-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but his birthplace is unknown.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBoyer1991[httpsarchiveorgdetailshistoryofmathema00boyepage100mode2upviewtheater_100]_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBoyer1991[httpsarchiveorgdetailshistoryofmathema00boyepage100mode2upviewtheater_100]-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Proclus held that Euclid followed the <a href="/wiki/Platonism" title="Platonism">Platonic tradition</a>, but there is no definitive confirmation for this.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1981355_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1981355-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is unlikely he was a contemporary of Plato, so it is often presumed that he was educated by Plato's disciples at the <a href="/wiki/Platonic_Academy" title="Platonic Academy">Platonic Academy</a> in Athens.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010126_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010126-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historian <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Heath_(classicist)" title="Thomas Heath (classicist)">Thomas Heath</a> supported this theory, noting that most capable geometers lived in Athens, including many of those whose work Euclid built on;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1908[httpsarchiveorgdetailsbub_gb_UhgPAAAAIAAJpagen13mode2up_2]_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1908[httpsarchiveorgdetailsbub_gb_UhgPAAAAIAAJpagen13mode2up_2]-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> historian Michalis Sialaros considers this a mere conjecture.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2020147–148_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2020147–148-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In any event, the contents of Euclid's work demonstrate familiarity with the Platonic geometry tradition.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52]_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52]-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his <i>Collection</i>, Pappus mentions that <a href="/wiki/Apollonius_of_Perga" title="Apollonius of Perga">Apollonius</a> studied with Euclid's students in <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a>, and this has been taken to imply that Euclid worked and founded a <a href="/wiki/School_of_thought" title="School of thought">mathematical tradition</a> there.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2020142_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2020142-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1908[httpsarchiveorgdetailsbub_gb_UhgPAAAAIAAJpagen13mode2up_2]_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1908[httpsarchiveorgdetailsbub_gb_UhgPAAAAIAAJpagen13mode2up_2]-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city was founded by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a> in 331 BC,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage126_126]_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage126_126]-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the rule of Ptolemy I from 306 BC onwards gave it a stability which was relatively unique amid the chaotic <a href="/wiki/Wars_of_the_Diadochi" title="Wars of the Diadochi">wars over dividing Alexander's empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage50mode2up_51]_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage50mode2up_51]-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ptolemy began a process of <a href="/wiki/Hellenization" title="Hellenization">hellenization</a> and commissioned numerous constructions, building the massive <a href="/wiki/Musaeum" class="mw-redirect" title="Musaeum">Musaeum</a> institution, which was a leading center of education.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBoyer1991[httpsarchiveorgdetailshistoryofmathema00boyepage100mode2upviewtheater_100]_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBoyer1991[httpsarchiveorgdetailshistoryofmathema00boyepage100mode2upviewtheater_100]-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Euclid is speculated to have been among the Musaeum's first scholars.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage126_126]_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage126_126]-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Euclid's date of death is unknown; it has been speculated that he died <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 270 BC</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage126_126]_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage126_126]-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Identity_and_historicity">Identity and historicity</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Domenico_Marol%C3%AC_-_Euclid_of_Megara.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Domenico_Marol%C3%AC_-_Euclid_of_Megara.jpg/330px-Domenico_Marol%C3%AC_-_Euclid_of_Megara.jpg" decoding="async" width="330" height="207" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Domenico_Marol%C3%AC_-_Euclid_of_Megara.jpg/500px-Domenico_Marol%C3%AC_-_Euclid_of_Megara.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Domenico_Marol%C3%AC_-_Euclid_of_Megara.jpg/960px-Domenico_Marol%C3%AC_-_Euclid_of_Megara.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1326" data-file-height="830" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Domenico_Maroli" title="Domenico Maroli">Domenico Maroli</a>'s 1650s painting <span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it">Euclide di Megara si traveste da donna per recarsi ad Atene a seguire le lezioni di Socrate</i></span> [<i>Euclid of Megara Dressing as a Woman to Hear Socrates Teach in Athens</i>]. At the time, Euclid the philosopher and Euclid the mathematician were wrongly considered the same person, so this painting includes mathematical objects on the table.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_and_Note_5_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_and_Note_5-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Euclid is often referred to as 'Euclid of Alexandria' to differentiate him from the earlier philosopher <a href="/wiki/Euclid_of_Megara" title="Euclid of Megara">Euclid of Megara</a>, a pupil of <a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a> included in <a href="/wiki/List_of_speakers_in_Plato%27s_dialogues" title="List of speakers in Plato's dialogues">dialogues of Plato</a> with whom he was historically conflated.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmorynski20082_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmorynski20082-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Valerius_Maximus" title="Valerius Maximus">Valerius Maximus</a>, the 1st century AD Roman compiler of anecdotes, mistakenly substituted Euclid's name for <a href="/wiki/Eudoxus_of_Cnidus" title="Eudoxus of Cnidus">Eudoxus</a> (4th century BC) as the mathematician to whom Plato sent those asking how to <a href="/wiki/Doubling_the_cube" title="Doubling the cube">double the cube</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones2005_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones2005-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Perhaps on the basis of this mention of a mathematical Euclid roughly a century early, Euclid became mixed up with Euclid of Megara in medieval <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> sources (now lost),<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> eventually leading Euclid the mathematician to be ascribed details of both men's biographies and described as <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Megarensis</i></span> (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">of Megara</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Life"_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Life"-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Byzantine scholar <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Metochites" title="Theodore Metochites">Theodore Metochites</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1300</span>) explicitly conflated the two Euclids, as did printer <a href="/wiki/Erhard_Ratdolt" title="Erhard Ratdolt">Erhard Ratdolt</a>'s 1482 <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Editio_princeps" title="Editio princeps">editio princeps</a></i></span> of <a href="/wiki/Campanus_of_Novara" title="Campanus of Novara">Campanus of Novara</a>'s Latin translation of the <i>Elements</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the mathematician <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bartolomeo_Zamberti&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bartolomeo Zamberti (page does not exist)">Bartolomeo Zamberti</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo_Zamberti" class="extiw" title="fr:Bartolomeo Zamberti">fr</a>; <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo_Zamberti" class="extiw" title="de:Bartolomeo Zamberti">de</a>]</span> appended most of the extant biographical fragments about either Euclid to the preface of his 1505 translation of the <i>Elements</i>, subsequent publications passed on this identification.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later Renaissance scholars, particularly <a href="/wiki/Peter_Ramus" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Ramus">Peter Ramus</a>, reevaluated this claim, proving it false via issues in chronology and contradiction in early sources.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120_34-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Mathematics_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world" title="Mathematics in the medieval Islamic world">Medieval Arabic sources</a> give vast amounts of information concerning Euclid's life, but are completely unverifiable.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most scholars consider them of dubious authenticity;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Heath in particular contends that the fictionalization was done to strengthen the connection between a revered mathematician and the Arab world.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1981355_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1981355-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are also numerous anecdotal stories concerning to Euclid, all of uncertain historicity, which "picture him as a kindly and gentle old man".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBoyer1991[httpsarchiveorgdetailshistoryofmathema00boyepage100mode2upviewtheater_101]_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBoyer1991[httpsarchiveorgdetailshistoryofmathema00boyepage100mode2upviewtheater_101]-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The best known of these is Proclus' story about Ptolemy asking Euclid if there was a quicker path to learning geometry than reading his <i>Elements</i>, which Euclid replied with "there is no royal road to geometry".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBoyer1991[httpsarchiveorgdetailshistoryofmathema00boyepage100mode2upviewtheater_101]_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBoyer1991[httpsarchiveorgdetailshistoryofmathema00boyepage100mode2upviewtheater_101]-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This anecdote is questionable since a very similar interaction between <a href="/wiki/Menaechmus" title="Menaechmus">Menaechmus</a> and Alexander the Great is recorded from <a href="/wiki/Stobaeus" title="Stobaeus">Stobaeus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBoyer199196_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBoyer199196-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both accounts were written in the 5th century AD, neither indicates its source, and neither appears in ancient Greek literature.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros201890_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros201890-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Any firm dating of Euclid's activity <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 300 BC</span> is called into question by a lack of contemporary references.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The earliest original reference to Euclid is in Apollonius' <a href="/wiki/Prefatory" class="mw-redirect" title="Prefatory">prefatory</a> letter to the <i><a href="/wiki/Conics" class="mw-redirect" title="Conics">Conics</a></i> (early 2nd century BC): "The third book of the <i>Conics</i> contains many astonishing theorems that are useful for both the syntheses and the determinations of number of solutions of solid <a href="/wiki/Locus_(mathematics)" title="Locus (mathematics)">loci</a>. Most of these, and the finest of them, are novel. And when we discovered them we realized that Euclid had not made the synthesis of the locus on three and four lines but only an accidental fragment of it, and even that was not felicitously done."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones2005_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones2005-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Elements</i> is speculated to have been at least partly in circulation by the 3rd century BC, as Archimedes and Apollonius take several of its propositions for granted;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> however, Archimedes employs an older variant of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Theory_of_proportions&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Theory of proportions (page does not exist)">theory of proportions</a> than the one found in the <i>Elements</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The oldest physical copies of material included in the <i>Elements</i>, dating from roughly 100 AD, can be found on <a href="/wiki/Oxyrhynchus_Papyri" title="Oxyrhynchus Papyri">papyrus fragments unearthed</a> in an ancient rubbish heap from <a href="/wiki/Oxyrhynchus" title="Oxyrhynchus">Oxyrhynchus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roman_Egypt" title="Roman Egypt">Roman Egypt</a>. The oldest extant direct citations to the <i>Elements</i> in works whose dates are firmly known are not until the 2nd century AD, by <a href="/wiki/Galen" title="Galen">Galen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alexander_of_Aphrodisias" title="Alexander of Aphrodisias">Alexander of Aphrodisias</a>; by this time it was a standard school text.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones2005_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones2005-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some ancient Greek mathematicians mention Euclid by name, but he is usually referred to as "ὁ στοιχειώτης" ("the author of <i>Elements</i>").<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1981357_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1981357-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Middle Ages, some scholars contended Euclid was not a historical personage and that his name arose from a <a href="/wiki/Language_change" title="Language change">corruption</a> of Greek mathematical terms.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52–53]_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52–53]-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elements"><i>Elements</i></h3></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="The_''Elements''"></span><span class="anchor" id="Elements"></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /></p><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_Elements" title="Euclid's Elements">Euclid's Elements</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:P._Oxy._I_29.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/P._Oxy._I_29.jpg/350px-P._Oxy._I_29.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/P._Oxy._I_29.jpg/525px-P._Oxy._I_29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/P._Oxy._I_29.jpg/700px-P._Oxy._I_29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1694" data-file-height="1032" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Papyrus_Oxyrhynchus_29" title="Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 29">papyrus fragment</a> of Euclid's <i>Elements</i> dated to <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 75–125 AD</span>. Found at <a href="/wiki/Oxyrhynchus" title="Oxyrhynchus">Oxyrhynchus</a>, the diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFowler1999210–211_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFowler1999210–211-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Euclid is best known for his thirteen-book treatise, the <i>Elements</i> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%B9%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1" class="extiw" title="wikt:στοιχεία">Στοιχεῖα</a></span>; <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">Stoicheia</i></span>), considered his <i><a href="/wiki/Magnum_opus" class="mw-redirect" title="Magnum opus">magnum opus</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Summary"_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Summary"-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._2_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._2-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Much of its content originates from earlier mathematicians, including <a href="/wiki/Eudoxus_of_Cnidus" title="Eudoxus of Cnidus">Eudoxus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hippocrates_of_Chios" title="Hippocrates of Chios">Hippocrates of Chios</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thales" class="mw-redirect" title="Thales">Thales</a> and <a href="/wiki/Theaetetus_(mathematician)" title="Theaetetus (mathematician)">Theaetetus</a>, while other theorems are mentioned by Plato and Aristotle.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._6_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._6-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is difficult to differentiate the work of Euclid from that of his predecessors, especially because the <i>Elements</i> essentially superseded much earlier and now-lost Greek mathematics.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>h<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The classicist Markus Asper concludes that "apparently Euclid's achievement consists of assembling accepted mathematical knowledge into a cogent order and adding new proofs to fill in the gaps" and the historian <a href="/wiki/Serafina_Cuomo" title="Serafina Cuomo">Serafina Cuomo</a> described it as a "reservoir of results".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECuomo2005131_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECuomo2005131-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._6_43-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._6-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite this, Sialaros furthers that "the remarkably tight structure of the <i>Elements</i> reveals authorial control beyond the limits of a mere editor".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Elements</i> does not exclusively discuss geometry as is sometimes believed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is traditionally divided into three topics: <a href="/wiki/Plane_geometry" class="mw-redirect" title="Plane geometry">plane geometry</a> (books 1–6), basic <a href="/wiki/Number_theory" title="Number theory">number theory</a> (books 7–10) and <a href="/wiki/Solid_geometry" title="Solid geometry">solid geometry</a> (books 11–13)—though book 5 (on proportions) and 10 (on <a href="/wiki/Irrational_number" title="Irrational number">irrational</a> lines) do not exactly fit this scheme.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20123_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20123-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._4_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._4-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The heart of the text is the <a href="/wiki/Theorem" title="Theorem">theorems</a> scattered throughout.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._2_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._2-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Using Aristotle's terminology, these may be generally separated into two categories: "first principles" and "second principles".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first group includes statements labeled as a "definition" (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">ὅρος</span> or <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ὁρισμός</span></span>), "postulate" (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">αἴτημα</span></span>), or a "common notion" (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">κοινὴ ἔννοια</span></span>);<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJahnke201018_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJahnke201018-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> only the first book includes postulates—later known as <a href="/wiki/Axiom" title="Axiom">axioms</a>—and common notions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>i<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The second group consists of propositions, presented alongside <a href="/wiki/Mathematical_proof" title="Mathematical proof">mathematical proofs</a> and diagrams.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"_49-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is unknown if Euclid intended the <i>Elements</i> as a textbook, but its method of presentation makes it a natural fit.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a whole, the <a href="/wiki/Authorial_voice" class="mw-redirect" title="Authorial voice">authorial voice</a> remains general and impersonal.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._6_43-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._6-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Contents">Contents</h4></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders floatright" style="font-size:90%"> <caption>Euclid's postulates and common notions<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1908154–155_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1908154–155-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr> </th> <th scope="col">Postulates </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Let the following be postulated: </td></tr> <tr> <td>1 </td> <td>To draw a straight line from any point to any point<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>j<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td> <td>To produce a finite straight line continuously in a straight line </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td>To describe a circle with any centre and distance </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td>That all right angles are equal to one another </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 </td> <td>That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines make the<br /> interior angles on the same side less than two right angles,<br /> the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side<br /> on which are the angles less than the two right angles </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr> </th> <th scope="col">Common notions </th></tr> <tr> <td>1 </td> <td>Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td> <td>If equals be added to equals, the wholes are equal </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td>If equals be subtracted from equals, the remainders are equal </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td>Things which coincide with one another are equal to one another </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 </td> <td>The whole is greater than the part </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Foundations_of_geometry" title="Foundations of geometry">Foundations of geometry</a></div> <p>Book 1 of the <i>Elements</i> is foundational for the entire text.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It begins with a series of 20 definitions for basic geometric concepts such as <a href="/wiki/Line_(geometry)" title="Line (geometry)">lines</a>, <a href="/wiki/Angle" title="Angle">angles</a> and various <a href="/wiki/Regular_polygon" title="Regular polygon">regular polygons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20123–4_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20123–4-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Euclid then presents 10 assumptions (see table, right), grouped into five postulates (axioms) and five common notions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWolfe19454_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWolfe19454-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>k<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These assumptions are intended to provide the logical basis for every subsequent theorem, i.e. serve as an <a href="/wiki/Axiomatic_system" title="Axiomatic system">axiomatic system</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPickover200956_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPickover200956-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>l<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The common notions exclusively concern the comparison of <a href="/wiki/Magnitude_(mathematics)" title="Magnitude (mathematics)">magnitudes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20124_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20124-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While postulates 1 through 4 are relatively straightforward,<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>m<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the 5th is known as the <a href="/wiki/Parallel_postulate" title="Parallel postulate">parallel postulate</a> and particularly famous.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20124_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20124-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Book 1 also includes 48 propositions, which can be loosely divided into those concerning basic theorems and constructions of plane geometry and <a href="/wiki/Triangle_congruence" class="mw-redirect" title="Triangle congruence">triangle congruence</a> (1–26); <a href="/wiki/Parallel_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Parallel line">parallel lines</a> (27–34); the <a href="/wiki/Area" title="Area">area</a> of <a href="/wiki/Triangle" title="Triangle">triangles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Parallelogram" title="Parallelogram">parallelograms</a> (35–45); and the <a href="/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem" title="Pythagorean theorem">Pythagorean theorem</a> (46–48).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20124_60-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20124-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The last of these includes the earliest surviving proof of the Pythagorean theorem, described by Sialaros as "remarkably delicate".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"_49-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Book 2 is traditionally understood as concerning "<a href="/wiki/Greek_geometric_algebra" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek geometric algebra">geometric algebra</a>", though this interpretation has been heavily debated since the 1970s; critics describe the characterization as anachronistic, since the foundations of even nascent algebra occurred many centuries later.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"_49-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The second book has a more focused scope and mostly provides algebraic theorems to accompany various geometric shapes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20124_60-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20124-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It focuses on the area of <a href="/wiki/Rectangle" title="Rectangle">rectangles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Square" title="Square">squares</a> (see <a href="/wiki/Quadrature_(geometry)" title="Quadrature (geometry)">Quadrature</a>), and leads up to a geometric precursor of the <a href="/wiki/Law_of_cosines" title="Law of cosines">law of cosines</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKatzMichalowicz202059_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKatzMichalowicz202059-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Book 3 focuses on circles, while the 4th discusses <a href="/wiki/Regular_polygons" class="mw-redirect" title="Regular polygons">regular polygons</a>, especially the <a href="/wiki/Pentagon" title="Pentagon">pentagon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20125_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20125-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Book 5 is among the work's most important sections and presents what is usually termed as the "general theory of proportion".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20125–6_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20125–6-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>o<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Book 6 utilizes the "theory of <a href="/wiki/Ratio" title="Ratio">ratios</a>" in the context of plane geometry.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is built almost entirely of its first proposition:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20126_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20126-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Triangles and parallelograms which are under the same height are to one another as their bases".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1908b191_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1908b191-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Platonic_Solids_Transparent.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Platonic_Solids_Transparent.svg/220px-Platonic_Solids_Transparent.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Platonic_Solids_Transparent.svg/330px-Platonic_Solids_Transparent.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Platonic_Solids_Transparent.svg/440px-Platonic_Solids_Transparent.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="496" data-file-height="404" /></a><figcaption>The five <a href="/wiki/Platonic_solids" class="mw-redirect" title="Platonic solids">Platonic solids</a>, foundational components of <a href="/wiki/Solid_geometry" title="Solid geometry">solid geometry</a> which feature in Books 11–13</figcaption></figure> <p>From Book 7 onwards, the mathematician <a href="/w/index.php?title=Benno_Artmann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Benno Artmann (page does not exist)">Benno Artmann</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benno_Artmann" class="extiw" title="de:Benno Artmann">de</a>]</span> notes that "Euclid starts afresh. Nothing from the preceding books is used".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20127_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20127-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Number_theory" title="Number theory">Number theory</a> is covered by books 7 to 10, the former beginning with a set of 22 definitions for <a href="/wiki/Parity_(mathematics)" title="Parity (mathematics)">parity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prime_number" title="Prime number">prime numbers</a> and other arithmetic-related concepts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Book 7 includes the <a href="/wiki/Euclidean_algorithm" title="Euclidean algorithm">Euclidean algorithm</a>, a method for finding the <a href="/wiki/Greatest_common_divisor" title="Greatest common divisor">greatest common divisor</a> of two numbers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20127_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20127-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 8th book discusses <a href="/wiki/Geometric_progression" title="Geometric progression">geometric progressions</a>, while book 9 includes the proposition, now called <a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_theorem" title="Euclid's theorem">Euclid's theorem</a>, that there are infinitely many <a href="/wiki/Prime_number" title="Prime number">prime numbers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the <i>Elements</i>, book 10 is by far the largest and most complex, dealing with irrational numbers in the context of magnitudes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"_49-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The final three books (11–13) primarily discuss <a href="/wiki/Solid_geometry" title="Solid geometry">solid geometry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20123_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20123-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By introducing a list of 37 definitions, Book 11 contextualizes the next two.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20129_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20129-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although its foundational character resembles Book 1, unlike the latter it features no axiomatic system or postulates.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20129_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20129-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The three sections of Book 11 include content on solid geometry (1–19), solid angles (20–23) and <a href="/wiki/Parallelepiped" title="Parallelepiped">parallelepipedal</a> solids (24–37).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20129_71-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20129-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_works">Other works</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Euclid_Dodecahedron_1.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Euclid_Dodecahedron_1.svg/250px-Euclid_Dodecahedron_1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Euclid_Dodecahedron_1.svg/330px-Euclid_Dodecahedron_1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Euclid_Dodecahedron_1.svg/500px-Euclid_Dodecahedron_1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="850" /></a><figcaption>Euclid's construction of a regular <a href="/wiki/Dodecahedron" title="Dodecahedron">dodecahedron</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In addition to the <i>Elements</i>, at least five works of Euclid have survived to the present day. They follow the same logical structure as <i>Elements</i>, with definitions and proved propositions. </p> <ul><li><i>Catoptrics</i> concerns the mathematical theory of mirrors, particularly the images formed in plane and spherical concave mirrors, though the attribution is sometimes questioned.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_Data" title="Euclid's Data">Data</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Δεδομένα</span>), is a somewhat short text which deals with the nature and implications of "given" information in geometrical problems.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>On Divisions</i> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Περὶ Διαιρέσεων</span>) survives only partially in <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> translation, and concerns the division of geometrical figures into two or more equal parts or into parts in given <a href="/wiki/Ratio" title="Ratio">ratios</a>. It includes thirty-six propositions and is similar to Apollonius' <i>Conics</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_Optics" title="Euclid's Optics">Optics</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Ὀπτικά</span>) is the earliest surviving Greek treatise on perspective. It includes an introductory discussion of <a href="/wiki/Geometrical_optics" title="Geometrical optics">geometrical optics</a> and basic rules of <a href="/wiki/Perspective_(graphical)" title="Perspective (graphical)">perspective</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_Phaenomena" title="Euclid's Phaenomena">Phaenomena</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Φαινόμενα</span>) is a treatise on <a href="/wiki/Spherical_astronomy" title="Spherical astronomy">spherical astronomy</a>, survives in Greek; it is similar to <i>On the Moving Sphere</i> by <a href="/wiki/Autolycus_of_Pitane" title="Autolycus of Pitane">Autolycus of Pitane</a>, who flourished around 310 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lost_works">Lost works</h3></div> <p>Four other works are credibly attributed to Euclid, but have been lost.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>The <i>Conics</i> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Κωνικά</span>) was a four-book survey on <a href="/wiki/Conic_section" title="Conic section">conic sections</a>, which was later superseded by Apollonius' more comprehensive treatment of the same name.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Other_writings"_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Other_writings"-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The work's existence is known primarily from Pappus, who asserts that the first four books of Apollonius' <i>Conics</i> are largely based on Euclid's earlier work.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones1986399–400_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones1986399–400-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Doubt has been cast on this assertion by the historian <a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Jones_(classicist)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexander Jones (classicist) (page does not exist)">Alexander Jones</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Jones_(Wissenschaftshistoriker)" class="extiw" title="de:Alexander Jones (Wissenschaftshistoriker)">de</a>]</span>, owing to sparse evidence and no other corroboration of Pappus' account.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones1986399–400_74-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones1986399–400-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <i>Pseudaria</i> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Ψευδάρια</span>; <abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">Fallacies</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>), was—according to Proclus in (70.1–18)—a text in geometrical <a href="/wiki/Reasoning" class="mw-redirect" title="Reasoning">reasoning</a>, written to advise beginners in avoiding common fallacies.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Other_writings"_73-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Other_writings"-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Very little is known of its specific contents aside from its scope and a few extant lines.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAcerbi2008511_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAcerbi2008511-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <i>Porisms</i> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Πορίσματα</span>; <abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">Corollaries</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>) was, based on accounts from Pappus and Proclus, probably a three-book treatise with approximately 200 propositions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Other_writings"_73-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Other_writings"-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The term '<a href="/wiki/Porism" title="Porism">porism</a>' in this context does not refer to a <a href="/wiki/Corollary" title="Corollary">corollary</a>, but to "a third type of proposition—an intermediate between a theorem and a problem—the aim of which is to discover a feature of an existing geometrical entity, for example, to find the centre of a circle".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mathematician <a href="/wiki/Michel_Chasles" title="Michel Chasles">Michel Chasles</a> speculated that these now-lost propositions included content related to the modern theories of <a href="/wiki/Transversal_(geometry)" title="Transversal (geometry)">transversals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Projective_geometry" title="Projective geometry">projective geometry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Other_writings"_73-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Other_writings"-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>p<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <i>Surface Loci</i> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Τόποι πρὸς ἐπιφανείᾳ</span>) is of virtually unknown contents, aside from speculation based on the work's title.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Other_writings"_73-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Other_writings"-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Conjecture based on later accounts has suggested it discussed cones and cylinders, among other subjects.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Euclid" title="List of things named after Euclid">List of things named after Euclid</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Byrne1.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Byrne1.png/170px-Byrne1.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Byrne1.png/255px-Byrne1.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Byrne1.png/340px-Byrne1.png 2x" data-file-width="543" data-file-height="688" /></a><figcaption>The cover page of <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Byrne_(mathematician)" title="Oliver Byrne (mathematician)">Oliver Byrne</a>'s 1847 colored edition of the <i>Elements</i></figcaption></figure> <p>Euclid is generally considered with Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga as among the greatest mathematicians of antiquity.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52]_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52]-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many commentators cite him as one of the most influential figures in the <a href="/wiki/History_of_mathematics" title="History of mathematics">history of mathematics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage125_125]_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage125_125]-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The geometrical system established by the <i>Elements</i> long dominated the field; however, today that system is often referred to as '<a href="/wiki/Euclidean_geometry" title="Euclidean geometry">Euclidean geometry</a>' to distinguish it from other <a href="/wiki/Non-Euclidean_geometry" title="Non-Euclidean geometry">non-Euclidean geometries</a> discovered in the early 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Legacy"_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Legacy"-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among Euclid's <a href="/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Euclid" title="List of things named after Euclid">many namesakes</a> are the <a href="/wiki/European_Space_Agency" title="European Space Agency">European Space Agency</a>'s (ESA) <a href="/wiki/Euclid_(spacecraft)" title="Euclid (spacecraft)">Euclid</a> spacecraft,<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the lunar crater <a href="/wiki/Euclides_(crater)" title="Euclides (crater)">Euclides</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the minor planet <a href="/wiki/4354_Euclides" title="4354 Euclides">4354 Euclides</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Elements</i> is often considered after the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a> as the most frequently translated, published, and studied book in the <a href="/wiki/Western_World" class="mw-redirect" title="Western World">Western World</a>'s history.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Legacy"_77-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Legacy"-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With Aristotle's <i><a href="/wiki/Metaphysics_(Aristotle)" title="Metaphysics (Aristotle)">Metaphysics</a></i>, the <i>Elements</i> is perhaps the most successful ancient Greek text, and was the dominant mathematical textbook in the Medieval Arab and Latin worlds.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Legacy"_77-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Legacy"-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first English edition of the <i>Elements</i> was published in 1570 by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Billingsley" title="Henry Billingsley">Henry Billingsley</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Dee" title="John Dee">John Dee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120_34-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mathematician <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Byrne_(mathematician)" title="Oliver Byrne (mathematician)">Oliver Byrne</a> published a well-known version of the <i>Elements</i> in 1847 entitled <i>The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in Which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols Are Used Instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners</i>, which included colored diagrams intended to increase its pedagogical effect.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHawesKolpas2015_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHawesKolpas2015-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/David_Hilbert" title="David Hilbert">David Hilbert</a> authored a <a href="/wiki/Hilbert%27s_axioms" title="Hilbert's axioms">modern axiomatization</a> of the <i>Elements</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHählPeters2022§_para._1_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHählPeters2022§_para._1-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay" title="Edna St. Vincent Millay">Edna St. Vincent Millay</a> wrote that "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare."<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-lower-alpha" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In modern English, 'Euclid' is pronounced as <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/j/: 'y' in 'yes'">j</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span></span>/</a></span></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''OED''a_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''OED''a-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Euclid's <i>oeuvre</i> also includes the treatise <i>On Divisions</i>, which survives fragmented in a later Arabic source.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He authored numerous <a href="#Lost_works">lost works</a> as well.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Some of the information from <a href="/wiki/Pappus_of_Alexandria" title="Pappus of Alexandria">Pappus of Alexandria</a> on Euclid is now lost and was preserved in <a href="/wiki/Proclus" title="Proclus">Proclus</a>'s <i>Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1911741_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1911741-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Proclus was likely working from (now-lost) 4th-century BC histories of mathematics written by <a href="/wiki/Theophrastus" title="Theophrastus">Theophrastus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eudemus_of_Rhodes" title="Eudemus of Rhodes">Eudemus of Rhodes</a>. <a href="/wiki/Proclus#Commentary_on_Euclid's_Elements" title="Proclus">Proclus explicitly mentions</a> Amyclas of Heracleia, <a href="/wiki/Menaechmus" title="Menaechmus">Menaechmus</a> and his brother <a href="/wiki/Dinostratus" title="Dinostratus">Dinostratus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Theudius" title="Theudius">Theudius of Magnesia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Athenaeus_of_Cyzicus" title="Athenaeus of Cyzicus">Athenaeus of Cyzicus</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hermotimus_of_Colophon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hermotimus of Colophon (page does not exist)">Hermotimus of Colophon</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Philip_of_Opus" title="Philip of Opus">Philippus of Mende</a>, and says that Euclid came "not long after" these men.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a href="#CITEREFHeath1981">Heath 1981</a>, p. 354 for an English translation on Proclus's account of Euclid's life.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Later Arab sources state he was a Greek born in modern-day <a href="/wiki/Tyre,_Lebanon" title="Tyre, Lebanon">Tyre, Lebanon</a>, though these accounts are considered dubious and speculative.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> See <a href="#CITEREFHeath1981">Heath 1981</a>, p. 355 for an English translation of the Arab account. He was long held to have been born in Megara, but by the <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> it was concluded that he had been confused with the philosopher <a href="/wiki/Euclid_of_Megara" title="Euclid of Megara">Euclid of Megara</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010118_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010118-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> see <a href="#Identity_and_historicity">§Identity and historicity</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The <a href="/wiki/Musaeum" class="mw-redirect" title="Musaeum">Musaeum</a> would later include the famous <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria" title="Library of Alexandria">Library of Alexandria</a>, but it was likely founded later, during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_II_Philadelphus" title="Ptolemy II Philadelphus">Ptolemy II Philadelphus</a> (285–246 BC).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETracy2000343–344_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETracy2000343–344-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The <i>Elements</i> version available today also includes "post-Euclidean" mathematics, probably added later by later editors such as the mathematician <a href="/wiki/Theon_of_Alexandria" title="Theon of Alexandria">Theon of Alexandria</a> in the 4th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._6_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._6-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The use of the term "axiom" instead of "postulate" derives from the choice of <a href="/wiki/Proclus" title="Proclus">Proclus</a> to do so in his highly influential commentary on the <i>Elements</i>. Proclus also substituted the term "hypothesis" instead of "common notion", though preserved "postulate".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJahnke201018_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJahnke201018-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See also: <a href="/wiki/Euclidean_relation" title="Euclidean relation">Euclidean relation</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The distinction between these categories is not immediately clear; postulates may simply refer to geometry specifically, while common notions are more general in scope.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWolfe19454_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWolfe19454-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The mathematician Gerard Venema notes that this <a href="/wiki/Axiomatic_system" title="Axiomatic system">axiomatic system</a> is not complete: "Euclid assumed more than just what he stated in the postulates".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVenema200610_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVenema200610-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a href="#CITEREFHeath1908">Heath 1908</a>, pp. 195–201 for a detailed overview of postulates 1 through 4</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Since antiquity, enormous amounts of scholarship have been written about the 5th postulate, usually from mathematicians attempting to <a href="/wiki/Proving_(math)" class="mw-redirect" title="Proving (math)">prove</a> the postulate—which would make it different from the other, unprovable, four postulates.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1908202_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1908202-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Much of Book 5 was probably ascertained from earlier mathematicians, perhaps Eudoxus.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"_49-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-76">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a href="#CITEREFJones1986">Jones 1986</a>, pp. 547–572 for further information on the <i>Porisms</i></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGetty-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGetty_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGetty">Getty</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage125_125]-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage125_125]_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage125_125]_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage125_125]_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage125_125]_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBruno2003">Bruno 2003</a>, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mathmathematicia00brun/page/125">125</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Summary"-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Summary"_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Summary"_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSialaros2021">Sialaros 2021</a>, § "Summary".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_4-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSialaros2021">Sialaros 2021</a>, § "Life".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTE''OED''a-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''OED''a_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''OED''a_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFOEDa"><i>OED</i>a</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTE''OED''b-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''OED''b_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFOEDb"><i>OED</i>b</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1981354-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1981354_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1981354_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHeath1981">Heath 1981</a>, p. 354.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1_9-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1_9-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._1_9-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAsper2010">Asper 2010</a>, § para. 1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"_10-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"_10-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Works"_10-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSialaros2021">Sialaros 2021</a>, § "Works".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1911741-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1911741_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHeath1911">Heath 1911</a>, p. 741.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52]-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52]_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52]_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52]_16-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52]_16-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBall1960">Ball 1960</a>, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/shortaccountofhi0000ball/page/52/mode/2up">52</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2020141-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2020141_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSialaros2020">Sialaros 2020</a>, p. 141.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010125-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010125_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGoulding2010">Goulding 2010</a>, p. 125.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmorynski20082-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmorynski20082_19-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmorynski20082_19-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmorynski2008">Smorynski 2008</a>, p. 2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBoyer1991[httpsarchiveorgdetailshistoryofmathema00boyepage100mode2upviewtheater_100]-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBoyer1991[httpsarchiveorgdetailshistoryofmathema00boyepage100mode2upviewtheater_100]_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBoyer1991[httpsarchiveorgdetailshistoryofmathema00boyepage100mode2upviewtheater_100]_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBoyer1991">Boyer 1991</a>, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofmathema00boye/page/100/mode/2up?view=theater">100</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010118-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010118_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGoulding2010">Goulding 2010</a>, p. 118.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1981355-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1981355_23-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1981355_23-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHeath1981">Heath 1981</a>, p. 355.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010126-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010126_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGoulding2010">Goulding 2010</a>, p. 126.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1908[httpsarchiveorgdetailsbub_gb_UhgPAAAAIAAJpagen13mode2up_2]-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1908[httpsarchiveorgdetailsbub_gb_UhgPAAAAIAAJpagen13mode2up_2]_25-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1908[httpsarchiveorgdetailsbub_gb_UhgPAAAAIAAJpagen13mode2up_2]_25-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHeath1908">Heath 1908</a>, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_UhgPAAAAIAAJ/page/n13/mode/2up">2</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2020147–148-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2020147–148_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSialaros2020">Sialaros 2020</a>, pp. 147–148.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2020142-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2020142_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSialaros2020">Sialaros 2020</a>, p. 142.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage126_126]-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage126_126]_28-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage126_126]_28-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBruno2003[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmathmathematicia00brunpage126_126]_28-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBruno2003">Bruno 2003</a>, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mathmathematicia00brun/page/126">126</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage50mode2up_51]-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage50mode2up_51]_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBall1960">Ball 1960</a>, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/shortaccountofhi0000ball/page/50/mode/2up">51</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETracy2000343–344-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETracy2000343–344_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTracy2000">Tracy 2000</a>, pp. 343–344.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_and_Note_5-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Life"_and_Note_5_32-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSialaros2021">Sialaros 2021</a>, § "Life" and Note 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones2005-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones2005_33-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones2005_33-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones2005_33-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJones2005">Jones 2005</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120_34-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120_34-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120_34-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120_34-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoulding2010120_34-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGoulding2010">Goulding 2010</a>, p. 120.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Life"-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Life"_35-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021">Taisbak & Van der Waerden 2021</a>, § "Life".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBoyer1991[httpsarchiveorgdetailshistoryofmathema00boyepage100mode2upviewtheater_101]-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBoyer1991[httpsarchiveorgdetailshistoryofmathema00boyepage100mode2upviewtheater_101]_36-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBoyer1991[httpsarchiveorgdetailshistoryofmathema00boyepage100mode2upviewtheater_101]_36-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBoyer1991">Boyer 1991</a>, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofmathema00boye/page/100/mode/2up?view=theater">101</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBoyer199196-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBoyer199196_37-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBoyer1991">Boyer 1991</a>, p. 96.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros201890-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros201890_38-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSialaros2018">Sialaros 2018</a>, p. 90.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1981357-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1981357_39-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHeath1981">Heath 1981</a>, p. 357.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52–53]-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBall1960[httpsarchiveorgdetailsshortaccountofhi0000ballpage52mode2up_52–53]_40-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBall1960">Ball 1960</a>, pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/shortaccountofhi0000ball/page/52/mode/2up">52–53</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFowler1999210–211-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFowler1999210–211_41-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFowler1999">Fowler 1999</a>, pp. 210–211.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._2-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._2_42-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._2_42-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAsper2010">Asper 2010</a>, § para. 2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._6-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._6_43-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._6_43-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._6_43-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._6_43-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAsper2010">Asper 2010</a>, § para. 6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021§_"Sources_and_contents_of_the_''Elements''"_44-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTaisbakVan_der_Waerden2021">Taisbak & Van der Waerden 2021</a>, § "Sources and contents of the <i>Elements</i>".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECuomo2005131-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECuomo2005131_46-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCuomo2005">Cuomo 2005</a>, p. 131.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20123-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20123_47-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20123_47-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFArtmann2012">Artmann 2012</a>, p. 3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._4-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAsper2010§_para._4_48-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAsper2010">Asper 2010</a>, § para. 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"_49-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"_49-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"_49-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"_49-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"_49-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"_49-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"The_''Elements''"_49-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSialaros2021">Sialaros 2021</a>, § "The <i>Elements</i>".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJahnke201018-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJahnke201018_50-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJahnke201018_50-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJahnke2010">Jahnke 2010</a>, p. 18.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1908154–155-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1908154–155_52-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHeath1908">Heath 1908</a>, pp. 154–155.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20123–4-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20123–4_54-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFArtmann2012">Artmann 2012</a>, p. 3–4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWolfe19454-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWolfe19454_55-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWolfe19454_55-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWolfe1945">Wolfe 1945</a>, p. 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPickover200956-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPickover200956_57-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPickover2009">Pickover 2009</a>, p. 56.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEVenema200610-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVenema200610_58-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFVenema2006">Venema 2006</a>, p. 10.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20124-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20124_60-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20124_60-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20124_60-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20124_60-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFArtmann2012">Artmann 2012</a>, p. 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1908202-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1908202_62-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHeath1908">Heath 1908</a>, p. 202.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKatzMichalowicz202059-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKatzMichalowicz202059_64-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKatzMichalowicz2020">Katz & Michalowicz 2020</a>, p. 59.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20125-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20125_65-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFArtmann2012">Artmann 2012</a>, p. 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20125–6-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20125–6_66-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFArtmann2012">Artmann 2012</a>, pp. 5–6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20126-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20126_68-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFArtmann2012">Artmann 2012</a>, p. 6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeath1908b191-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeath1908b191_69-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHeath1908b">Heath 1908b</a>, p. 191.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20127-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20127_70-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20127_70-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFArtmann2012">Artmann 2012</a>, p. 7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEArtmann20129-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20129_71-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20129_71-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArtmann20129_71-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFArtmann2012">Artmann 2012</a>, p. 9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESialaros2021§_"Other_Works"_72-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSialaros2021">Sialaros 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New York: <a href="/wiki/Springer_Publishing" title="Springer Publishing">Springer Publishing</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4612-1412-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4612-1412-0"><bdi>978-1-4612-1412-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Euclid%3A+The+Creation+of+Mathematics&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Springer+Publishing&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-1-4612-1412-0&rft.aulast=Artmann&rft.aufirst=Benno&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DF8XgBwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEuclid" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBall1960" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/W._W._Rouse_Ball" title="W. W. Rouse Ball">Ball, W.W. 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Mineola: <a href="/wiki/Dover_Publications" title="Dover Publications">Dover Publications</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-486-20630-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-486-20630-1"><bdi>978-0-486-20630-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Short+Account+of+the+History+of+Mathematics&rft.place=Mineola&rft.edition=4th&rft.pub=Dover+Publications&rft.date=1960&rft.isbn=978-0-486-20630-1&rft.aulast=Ball&rft.aufirst=W.W.+Rouse&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fshortaccountofhi0000ball&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEuclid" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBruno2003" class="citation book cs1">Bruno, Leonard C. 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Detroit: U X L. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7876-3813-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7876-3813-9"><bdi>978-0-7876-3813-9</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/41497065">41497065</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Math+and+Mathematicians%3A+The+History+of+Math+Discoveries+Around+the+World&rft.place=Detroit&rft.pub=U+X+L&rft.date=2003&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F41497065&rft.isbn=978-0-7876-3813-9&rft.aulast=Bruno&rft.aufirst=Leonard+C.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fmathmathematicia00brun&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEuclid" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBoyer1991" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Carl_Benjamin_Boyer" title="Carl Benjamin Boyer">Boyer, Carl B.</a> (1991) [1968]. <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofmathema00boye"><i>A History of Mathematics</i></a></span> (2nd ed.). 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title="Problem of Apollonius">Problem of Apollonius</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concepts<br />and definitions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angle" title="Angle">Angle</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Central_angle" title="Central angle">Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inscribed_angle" title="Inscribed angle">Inscribed</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Axiomatic_system" title="Axiomatic system">Axiomatic system</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Axiom" title="Axiom">Axiom</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chord_(geometry)" title="Chord (geometry)">Chord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circles_of_Apollonius" title="Circles of Apollonius">Circles of Apollonius</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollonian_circles" title="Apollonian circles">Apollonian circles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollonian_gasket" title="Apollonian 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0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">In <a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_elements" class="mw-redirect" title="Euclid's elements"><i>Elements</i></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angle_bisector_theorem" title="Angle bisector theorem">Angle bisector theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exterior_angle_theorem" title="Exterior angle theorem">Exterior angle theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euclidean_algorithm" title="Euclidean algorithm">Euclidean algorithm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euclid%27s_theorem" title="Euclid's theorem">Euclid's theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geometric_mean_theorem" title="Geometric mean theorem">Geometric mean theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_geometric_algebra" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek geometric algebra">Greek geometric 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