Euclid. What's the point of Geometry?

Euclid (Greek Eukleides) was the most prominent mathematician of Greco-Roman antiquity. He was born c. 300 BCE in Alexandria, Egypt). Euclid best known for his treatise on geometry, his work 'the Elements'. Today we are going to know what some geometrical terms are ...

EUCLID’S FAMOUS QUOTES:

“The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God”

“ There is no other Royal path which leads to geometry”.

THE ELEMENTS:

The Elements is divided into 13 books.

• The first 6 books deals with plane geometry.
• Books  7to 9 deals with number theory.
• Book 10 deals with the theory of irrational numbers .
• Books 11 to 13 deals with three-dimensional geometry .

Euclid's Elements is remarkable for the clarity with which the theorems are stated and proved.

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EUCLID'S OTHER WORKS :       

• ON DIVISION deals with plane geometry.
• The book DATA discusses plane geometry and contains propositions.
• PHAENOMENA is a work by what we call today as applied mathematics, concerning the  geometry of spheres for use in astronomy. 
• THE OPTICS, corrects the belief held at the time that the sun and other heavenly bodies are actually the size they appear to be to the eye.
• CONICS was a work on conic sections.