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Euclid, by Justus van Gent, c. 1474
Euclid, by Justus van Gent, c. 1474 · Wikimedia Commons

Author

Euclid

fl. c. 300 BC · Mathematician

A teacher at Alexandria under the first Ptolemy, of whose life almost nothing is known. Told by the king that his book was hard, he is said to have answered that there is no royal road to geometry.

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The Elements, in Greek beside Heath’s English.

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