Euclid Of Alexandria; The Elements
Approx. Words: 2,475 - Pages: 11 Add to cart Price $120.45
...his best known work is ‘The Elements’, but little is known about the life of Euclid. It is believed that he was a teacher at Alexandria in Egypt and the snippets that are known are taken from secondary sources There are some interesting hypothesises that Euclid was not an actual man, but the name used by a collective group of mathematicians writing together. . One of the main sources has been Proclus, one of the last major Greek philosophers (Morrow, 1970). Proclus was not a contemporary of Euclid; it is believed that Euclid wrote elements around 300 BCE Before Common Era. whereas Proclus lived more than 800 years later in the fifth century CE Common Era. , however, this is a primary source of information, but it is also in line with other sources.
The context of the...
Add to cart Price $120.45