An element is the basic part or principle of anything, an object or an idea. Euclid's Elements outlines and explains the basic concepts of mathematics that had been determined by Greek and Egyptian mathematicians by the third century BC. His compilation of the elements of mathematics is still in use over two thousand years later, and remains the foundation of 'modern' geometry. you mean propositions are the basic part or principle of anything, and object or an idea.
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Euclid is known as the Father of Geometry. He was a very intelligent mathematician who wrote a book all about geometry, called The Elements.
Euclid's Elements is a mathematical and geometric treatiseconsisting of 13 books written by the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egyptc. 300 BC. It is a collection of definitions, postulates (axioms), propositions (theoremsand constructions), and mathematical proofs of the propositions.
There are 13 books making up Euclid's 'Elements'.
a collection of definitions, postulates (axioms), propositions (theoremsand constructions), and mathematical proofs of the propositions.