- 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
- Euclid's Elements
- Euclid wrote this Work in 13 Books divided into 3 sections:
- Plane Geometry: Books 1-4
- Book 1: Euclid’s 10 Axioms. Parallel Postulate. Pythagoras' Theorem, Bridge of asses Theorem.
- Book 2: Book of Geometric Algebra. Square Roots.
- Book 3: Circles and their properties. Thales Theorem.
- Book 4: incircle and circumcircle of a triangle. Regular Polygons.
- 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.
- 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