distance." Euclid, Elements, Book I, Postulates 1 & 3. Euclid's axiomatic approach and constructive methods were widely influential. Many of Euclid's propositions...
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to the Elements, Euclid wrote a central early text in the optics field, Optics, and lesser-known works including Data and Phaenomena. Euclid's authorship...
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Parallel postulate (redirect from Euclid's fifth postulate)
the parallel postulate, also called Euclid's fifth postulate because it is the fifth postulate in Euclid's Elements, is a distinctive axiom in Euclidean...
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In algebra and number theory, Euclid's lemma is a lemma that captures a fundamental property of prime numbers: Euclid's lemma — If a prime p divides the...
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Euclidean geometry (redirect from Euclid's postulates)
attributed to ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, which he described in his textbook on geometry, Elements. Euclid's approach consists in assuming a small...
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Proclus (section Commentary on Euclid's Elements)
Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's "Elements" Proclus (1970). A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University...
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Euclid's theorem is a fundamental statement in number theory that asserts that there are infinitely many prime numbers. It was first proven by Euclid...
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Proof by contradiction (section Euclid's Elements)
g_{k}} and derived a contradiction. Euclid's theorem states that there are infinitely many primes. In Euclid's Elements the theorem is stated in Book IX...
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Pythagorean theorem (redirect from 47th Problem of Euclid)
Conceptual Development. Kluwer. ISBN 0-7923-5972-0. Euclid (1956). The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, Translated from the Text of Heiberg, with Introduction...
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Method of exhaustion (section Euclid)
"Euclid's Elements, Book XII, Proposition 2". aleph0.clarku.edu. "Euclid's Elements, Book XII, Proposition 5". aleph0.clarku.edu. "Euclid's Elements,...
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