# Euclid

> He wrote a math textbook around 300 BC that held the field for two thousand years. The Elements laid out geometry from first principles — axioms to theorems — and became the template for rigorous proof itself.

*Ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Born:** -333
- **Died:** -285
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Almost nothing survives about the man: an ancient Greek mathematician working in Alexandria, active around 300 BC, after Plato's circle and before Archimedes. Later scholars invented colorful backstories; medieval writers confused him with an earlier philosopher. What remains is the work. In the Elements, he synthesized earlier Greek geometry — drawing on Eudoxus, Thales, Theaetetus — and built it into a deductive system, each theorem following from a handful of axioms. He also wrote on optics, conic sections, spherical geometry, and number theory, though many works are now lost. Euclid is generally bracketed with Archimedes and Apollonius as one of antiquity's greatest mathematicians, regarded as the bridge between the Platonic tradition in Athens and the later flowering in Alexandria.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Scientists, #Academic, #Mathematics, #Literature, #Ancient History

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