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...Euclid s elements of geometry the greek text j l heiberg from euclidis elementa edidit et latine interpretatus est i in aedibus b g teubneri edited and provided with a modern english translation by richard fitzpatrick first edition revised corrected isbn contents introduction book lexicon is far most famous mathematical work classical antiquity also has distinction being world oldest continuously used textbook little known about author beyond fact that he lived alexandria around bce main subjects are proportion numbertheory theorems appearing were not discovered himself but earlier mathematicians such as pythagoras his school hippocrates chios theaetetus athens eudoxusofcnidos however generally credited arranging these logical manner so to demonstrate admittedly always rigour demanded bymodern mathematics thatthey necessarily follow fromvesimpleaxioms devising number particularly ingenious proofs previously e theorem geometrical constructions employed restricted those which can be achi...