For his major study, Elements, Euclid collected the work of many mathematicians who preceded him. Among these were Hippocrates of Chios, Theudius, Theaetetus, and Eudoxus. Euclid's vital contribution was to gather, compile, organize, and rework the mathematical concepts of his predecessors into a consistent whole, later to become known as Euclidean geometry.
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http://www.bookrags.com/research/euclid-and-his-contributions-mmat-02/ Euclid's Elements is the basis of geometry taught in schools today, more than 2000 years after it was written.
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Euclid was important to the development of geometry.
His major contributions are in geometry and in his book The Elements. He gave many rules of geometry which are also used nowadays. Books of Euclid provide a base of geometry. Euclid's ideas and theories are still considered as basics of mathematics. His most famous work was Metric. Another contribution of Euclid was that he gave the practical ideas in Mathematics.
While Euclid was famed for his development and presentation of geometry to the ancient Greek world, it was Archimedes who made a direct contribution to the discovery of pi.I suggest you find an online summary of Euclid's Elementsand use that as a resource.
Euclid was known as the Father of Geometry.
Euclid was the father of Geometry and he acualy dicovered it and we use Geometry