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Elements
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Euclid Platonic solids

Elements: References & Edit History

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  • Euclid
    / Sources and contents of the Elements
  • algorithm
  • foundations of mathematics
  • Thomas Hobbes
    / Intellectual development of Thomas Hobbes
  • Teaching the Elements
  • Archytas of Tarentum
  • Eudoxus of Cnidus
    / Mathematician
  • algebra
    / The Pythagoreans and Euclid
  • golden ratio
    / History
  • mathematics
    / The pre-Euclidean period
  • mathematics
    / Number theory
  • number theory
    / Euclid
  • perfect number
  • prime
  • prime number theorem
  • Euclidean geometry
  • geometry
    / Ancient geometry: practical and empirical
  • non-Euclidean geometry
  • Euclid’s Windmill
  • Pythagorean theorem
  • side-angle-side theorem
  • mathematics
    / Ancient mathematical sources
  • mathematics
    / The universities
  • Adelard Of Bath
  • Isaac Barrow
  • Hippocrates of Chios
  • Theaetetus

Article Contributors

Primary Contributors

  • Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
  • Christian Marinus Taisbak

Other Encyclopedia Britannica Contributors

  • Yamini Chauhan
  • Erik Gregersen
  • Gloria Lotha

Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: Indian Academy of Sciences - Euclid and ‘The Elements’ (PDF).
  • Yamini Chauhan
May 12, 2025
Add new Web site: Internet Archive - The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements.
  • Gloria Lotha
Oct 22, 2023
New article added.
  • Erik Gregersen
Aug 24, 2023
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