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Euclid

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Euclid of Alexandria (Greek: Eukleides) (circa 365 -275 BCE) was a Greek mathematician who lived in the 3rd century BCE in Alexandria. His most famous work is the Elements, a book in which he deduces the properties of geometrical objects and integers from a set of axioms, thereby anticipating the axiomatic method of modern mathematics. Although many of the results in the Elements originated with earlier mathematicians, one of Euclid's major accomplishments was to present them in a single logically coherent framework. The geometry of Euclid was known for ages as "the" geometry, but is nowadays referred to as Euclidean geometry.