id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2819 Euclid - Wikipedia .html text/html 4184 827 62 His Elements is one of the most influential works in the history of mathematics, serving as the main textbook for teaching mathematics (especially geometry) from the time of its publication until the late 19th or early 20th century.[2][3][4] In the Elements, Euclid deduced the theorems of what is now called Euclidean geometry from a small set of axioms. Euclid also wrote works on perspective, conic sections, spherical geometry, number theory, and mathematical rigour. Because the lack of biographical information is unusual for the period (extensive biographies being available for most significant Greek mathematicians several centuries before and after Euclid), some researchers have proposed that Euclid was not a historical personage, and that his works were written by a team of mathematicians who took the name Euclid from Euclid of Megara (à la Bourbaki). Euclid's Elements, with the original Greek and an English translation on facing pages (includes PDF version for printing). Ancient Greek and Hellenistic mathematics (Euclidean geometry) Euclid's theorem ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2819.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2819.txt