Euclidean Geometry

  • Euclid was a Greek mathematician who is considered to be the Father of Geometry and lived and worked in Alexandria around 300 BCE.
  • His main work was ‘Elements’, which holds all the theories of Euclidean Geometry including a description of Prime Numbers.

Works

  1. Plane Geometry: Books 1-4
  2. Ratios and Proportions: Books 5-10
    • Book 5: Proportions of Magnitudes.
    • Book 6: Proportions in Geometry. Similar Figures.
    • Book 7: Elementary number theory: Divisibility, Prime Numbers, Euclid’s Algorithm.
    • Book 8: Proportions in number theory and geometric sequences.
    • Book 9: Conclusions of Books 7-8. The infinitude of Prime Numbers. The sum of Geometric Series. The construction of Even Perfect Numbers.
    • Book 10: Classification of irrational magnitudes.
  3. Spatial Geometry: Books 11-13
    • Book 11: Review of Books 1-6 in relation to space.
    • Book 12: Volumes of cones, pyramids and cylinders.
    • Book 13: Platonic solids

List of Theorums

 

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