Questions tagged [euclid]
Euclid of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician and the "father of geometry".
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Are Euclid's theorems and proofs due to Euclid?
Some appear to argue that much of the Elements by Euclid is a compilation of knowledge handed down to Euclid from his predecessors. On the other hand, some credit the proof, of the Pythagorean theorem ...
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Has Euclid stated Cauchy's theorem?
Cauchy's Rigidity theorem says that if the corresponding faces of two convex polytopes are isometric (congruent)
then the polytopes are related by a (proper or improper) motion.
Cauchy's biography (...
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How did Aristotle influence Euclid?
In other words, how is Aristotle's logic represented in Euclid's Elements?
I have read many articles where Euclid's Elements is linked to Aristotle's logic, but I do not understand, and I can't find ...
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When did the people start using the portraits of the two Euclids interchangeably?
According to the folks of Wikipedia, this is the portrait of Euclid of Alexandria (the "Father of Geometry"):
Yet, I read several years ago on MathOverflow that the individual in the ...
