Eukleides biography for kids

Euclid's Elements (sometimes: The Elements, Greek: ΣτοιχεῖαStoicheia) is a large set of math books about geometry, written by the ancient Greekmathematician known as Euclid (c BC– BC) in Alexandria (Egypt) circa  BC.

The set has 13 volumes, or sections, and has been printed often as 13 physical books (numbered I-XIII), rather than one large book. It has been translated into Latin, with the title "Euclidis Elementorum". It is the most famous mathmetical text from ancient times.

Euclid collected together all that was known of geometry in his time. His Elements is the main source of ancient geometry.

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Textbooks based on Euclid have been used up to the present day. In the book, he starts out from a small set of axioms (that is, a group of things that everyone thinks are true). Euclid then shows the properties of geometric objects and of whole num eukleides biography for kids2 MAJA