Euclid Bio
Principles
Information on his life
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Euclids Elements
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Geometry
Structure of a Proposition
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True or False:  Euclid was Greek.

True.

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The concrete meaning of the word "principle."

What is "beginning"? or What is "a beginning"?

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What B.C was Euclid born in?
C.365 B.C
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What was Euclid most famous for?
His Elements
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What does book 1 of the Elements cosist of?
It outlines the fundamental propositions of plane geometry.
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The six parts of a Euclidean Proposition, in order?

What are, "enunciation, given, to prove/to do, construction, proof, conclusion"?

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The dates of Euclid's life.

c. 325-265 B.C.

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The philosophical meaning of "principle."

What is, "that from which anything flows in any way"?
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What B.C did Euclid die in?
C. 275 B.C
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What did Euclid study?
What is Mathematics.
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What are the Geometrical contructions employed in the Elements restriced to?
Those which can achieved using a straight rule compass.
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The approximate year Euclid published the Elements.

What is c. 300 B.C.?

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The three kinds of principles in Euclid's Elements.

What are definitions, postulates, and common notions?

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What were two names that Euclid was known as?
"Father of Geometry, " and, "The Author of Geometry. "
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Who did editors often get confused with Euclid?
The Philosopher, Eucleides of Megara.
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What are the main subjects of Euclids work?
Geometry, proportion, and number theory.
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Where and when did Euclid teach?

What is Alexandria in the time of Ptolemy I Soter?

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The saying about St. Thomas Aquinas about principles.

What is "the whole of a science is contained virtually in its principles"?

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Where did Euclid teach at?
What is Alexandria in the time of Ptolemy I Soter.
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How many books did Euclid create that we know of today?
13 books
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What does Book #7 of the Elements deal with?
It deals with Elementary number theory, prime numbers , and greatest common denominators
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Euclid wrote every proposition of the Elements.

False:  He primarily compiled and ordered them.

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The proof for principles.

What is, "there is none--every science must start with its principles, it cannot prove them"?

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What did Euclid work on?
Perspective, Coniesections Spherical Geometry, number theory, and Rigor.
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Where most of the theorems appearing in the Elements discovered by Euclid?
No. They were the work of earlier Greek Mathematicians such as Pythagoras, Hippocrates of Chios, theaetetus, Of Athens, and Eydoxus of Chidos.
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When Ptolemy asked if there was a shorter path to learning geometry, Euclid said,"Yes,....." and explained
False. He said,"There is no royal road to geometry. "
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