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...the everyday life. The axiomatic method was the main research tool since [[Euclid]] (about 300 BC). The coordinate method (analytic geometry) was added by [[ ...ed "the three-dimensional Euclidean space". Its axiomatization, started by Euclid 23 centuries ago, was finalized in the 20 century by David Hilbert, Alfred

[[Euclid's Elements]]. This theory had become available only a century before,

* Circa 300 BC: In Book II of his Elements, [[Euclid]] gives a geometric construction with Euclidean tools for the solution of t

:: - the mathematics of [[Euclid]] and [[Pythagoras]]

...36461 Publisher's description:]</u></b>&nbsp;Herophilus, a contemporary of Euclid, practiced medicine in Alexandria in the third century B.C., and seems to h

irrationality.</ref> [[Euclid]] gave an algorithm for computing the greatest common divisor of two numbers ([[Euclid's Elements]], Prop. VII.2) and a proof

...f the telescope. Dee noted in a preface to Billingsley's translation of ''Euclid'' (1570) what he refers to as '''Perspective glasses''', a term used by Tho ...e to the ''Pantometria'', published the year after John Dee's Preface to ''Euclid'', Thomas noted specifically how his father had observed things with "Persp

* [[Euclid]] * [[Euclid's elements]]

as in the following pair which was already known to Euclid:

[[Image:Ccc-road.jpg|thumb|350px|CCC workers on road construction, Camp Euclid, Ohio 1936 ]]

<tr><th>Lundi<th>8<td>[[Belus]]<td>[[Scopas]]<td>[[Solon]]<td>[[Euclid]]<td>[[Pericles]]

...influenced by thinkers such as [[Descartes]]<ref name=tws07dec114/> and [[Euclid]]<ref name=tws908>{{cite news ...esolved obscurities and has a forbidding mathematical structure modeled on Euclid's geometry.<ref name=tws908/> But his philosophy attracted believers such a

# [[Euclid]]

...tism.<ref name="Farndon">Farndon, John et al. ''The Great Scientists: From Euclid to Stephen Hawking'', Metro Books, New York (2007) pp. 82 </ref> Faraday ne ...ame="Farndon" /> --><ref>Farndon, John et al. ''The Great Scientists: From Euclid to Stephen Hawking'', pp. 82 </ref>

A story (also told of Euclid) shows both a harsh and dogmatic Plato , but also an idealistic one. The s

..., contradicting contemporary beliefs, including those of [[Ptolemy]] and [[Euclid]]. The way in which Alhazen combined observations and rational arguments ha

...ho was himself also an Athenian<ref>Not the familiar mathematician named [[Euclid]].</ref> and Nicorrates of Samos and even the kings of [[Pergamum|Pergamos]

...relation to logic and philosophy goes back to the ancient Greeks such as [[Euclid]], [[Plato]], and [[Aristotle]]. Many other ancient and medieval philosoph

...generality]] are valued. There is beauty also in a clever proof, such as [[Euclid]]'s proof that there are infinitely many [[prime number]]s, and in a numeri

...wer of axiomatic [[deductive reasoning]] from the book of [[Euclid]]'s ''[[Euclid's Elements|Elements]]'', which he called the "holy little geometry book" <r