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-0325 – Euclid – bio
Euclid was a Greek mathematician and scholar who worked in Alexandria during the rule of Ptolemy. Euclid is best known for his vast collection of mathematics and geometry in a series of books called, “The Elements”. While it is possible that most of the work compiled in The Elements had been discovered previously by others, [...]
1829 – Non-Euclidean geometry
Lobachevsky becomes the first to publish a theory of non-Euclidean geometry even though Gauss had worked on the same ideas earlier and Bolyai was working on it concurrently although independently of Lobachevsky. Bolyai published in 1832. Riemann and Klein advanced the work later. Euclid’s “The Elements” contained postulates and axioms of geometry that set the [...]
