| 词汇 | euclidian |
| 词源 | Euclidian. The Greek mathematician Euclid’s Elements, writ- ten in the third century b.c., was a collection of theorems and problems that formed the basis for geometry. So famous were Euclid’s mathematical works—the Elements alone consisted of 13 “books”—that they completely overshadowed his life; al- most nothing is known about the man himself. The mathema- tician probably received his training from pupils of Plato in Athens, and it is certain that he founded a school in Alexandria about 306 b.c. Euclid is said to have told Ptolemy that “there is no royal road to geometry” when the ruler asked if there wasn’t an easier way to learn it. Much of his Elements owes a great debt to the work of earlier mathematicians. |
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