Eukleides biography of mahatma

Greek geometer who wrote the Elements the world's most definitive text on geometry.

Eukleides biography of mahatma gandhi

The book synthesized earlier knowledge about geometry, and was used for centuries in western Europe as a geometry textbook. The text began with definitions, postulates ("Euclid's postulates"), and common opinions, then proceeded to obtain results by rigorous geometric proof.

Euclid also proved what is generally known as Euclid's second theorem: the number of primes is infinite. The beautiful proof Euclid gave of this theorem is still a gem and is generally acknowledged to be one of the "classic" proofs of all times in terms of its conciseness and clarity.

Eukleides biography of mahatma

In the Elements Euclid used the method of exhaustion and reductio ad absurdum. He also discussed the so-called Euclidean algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers, and is credited with the well-known proof of the Pythagorean theorem.

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