Part one of term paper
Euclid's Facts Euclid was born about 365 BC in Alexandria, Egypt and died about 300 BC. Euclid was best known for his treatise on geometry (The Elements). The long lasting nature of The Elements must make Euclid the leading mathematician of all time. But little is known of Euclid's life except that he taught at Alexandria in Egypt. The El ...

Part two of term paper
... due to him. The Elements begins with definitions and axioms, including the famous fifth, or parallel, postulate that one and only one line can be drawn through a point parallel to a given line. Euclid's decision to make this an axiom led to Euclidean geometry. It was not until the 19th century that this axiom was dropped and non-Euclidean geometry's were studied. The Elements is divided into 13 books. Books 1-6, plane geometry: books 7- 9, number theory: book 10, Exodus's theory of irratio ...