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Friday, 11 December 2009

Euclid : father of geometry

Euclid, who lived around 300 B.C., was a distinguished Greek mathematician known as the father of geometry. He initiated a new way of thinking in the study of proving geometrical results by deductive reasoning based on previously proved results and some self-evident specific assumptions called axioms or postulates. Euclids monumental work is contained in his thirteen volumes called the Elements.

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