10 Facts About Euclid

Euclid is often regarded as bridging between the earlier Platonic tradition in Athens with the later tradition of Alexandria.

Euclid wrote works on perspective, conic sections, spherical geometry, number theory, and mathematical rigour.

English name 'Euclid' is the anglicized version of the Ancient Greek name ????e?d??.

Euclid is accepted as the author of four mostly extant treatises—the Elements, Optics, Data, Phaenomena—but besides this, there is nothing known for certain of him.

Thus, the traditional outline—described by the historian Michalis Sialaros as the "dominant view"—holds that Euclid lived around 300 BCE in Alexandria while Ptolemy I reigned.

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Euclid's birthdate is unknown; some scholars estimate around 330 or 325 BCE, but other sources avoid speculating a date entirely.

Proclus held that Euclid followed the Platonic tradition, but there is no definitive confirmation for this.

The best known of these is Proclus' story about Ptolemy asking Euclid if there was a quicker path to learning geometry than reading his Elements, which Euclid replied with "there is no royal road to geometry".

Euclid is best known for his thirteen-book treatise, the Elements.

Euclid is generally considered with Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga as among the greatest mathematicians of antiquity.