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  1. Pictures of Euclid - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Euclid/pictdisplay/

    2 Jan 2026: Euclid has been given the face of the architect Bramante. You can see the whole fresco.

  2. Euclid's definitions - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Euclid_definitions/

    7 Mar 2023: Then, before Euclid starts to prove theorems, he gives a list of common notions. ... When Euclid introduces magnitudes and numbers he gives some definitions but no postulates or common notions.

  3. Euclid Theorem - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/EuclidTheorem/

    7 Mar 2023: We find. x. x. x so that. (. a. x. ). x. =. b. 2. (a - x)x = b{2}. (ax)x=b2. Draw a line of length. a. a. a. Draw a line of length. b. b. b perpendicular to the line. a. a. a from its midpoint. Draw a circle centred at the end of the line with radius

  4. All Glossary Items - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Glossary/

    30 Sep 2025: An apotome is one of Euclid's categories of irrational numbers. ... Euclid of Megara (born: 430 BC, died: about 360 BC) was a pupil of Socrates.

  5. Euclid album page

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/Store/euclid.html

    17 Nov 2022: Click on a thumbnail to see the full image. Vatican City 1986. Maldives 1988.

  6. Heinz Klaus Strick's histories - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/

    24 Aug 2026: Every month for 20 years Heinz Klaus Strick produced a mathematical calendar page, illustrated with postage stamps from his extensive collection. These were published in the on-line magazine Spektrum. English translations of these were later

  7. Linda Hall Library links - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/Linda_Hall_links/

    6 Sep 2026: The Linda Hall library is situated in Kansas City, Missouri and has an important collection of history of mathematics books. We have linked more than 250 of our biographies to their Scientist of the day feature curated by W B Ashworth Jr, as shown

  8. Euclid (325 BC - 265 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Euclid/

    24 Aug 2026: reference to Euclid and this occurs in On the sphere and the cylinder. ... ii) Euclid was the leader of a team of mathematicians working at Alexandria.

  9. Time Line: 800BC-700AD

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Timelines/timelinea.html

    11 Dec 2024: Indian mathematicians are marked in red. Other non-Greek mathematicians are marked in blue. For the purposes of this diagram, if birth or death dates are not known, we have assigned a life span of 60 years. Go to the Timelines index. Scroll the

  10. Mathematical Association - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/MA/

    1 Dec 2025: An invitation was extended to all mathematicians to prepare syllabuses for elementary geometry, containing their views of the principles which should be adopted in a new textbook to supersede Euclid. ... The Association also published books. The elements