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...Euclid fl bce the name is known to almost every high school student as author of elements long studied treatise on geometry and number theory no other book except bible has been so widely translated circulated from time it was written regarded an extraordinary work by all mathematicians even greatest mathematician antiquity archimedes through centuries that have followed unquestionably best mathematics text ever likely remain into distant future thisminiaturefoundinamanuscriptoftheromansurveyorsinwolfenbuttel th century ce purportedly image little about bc hetaught wrote in egypt at museum library alexandria c g donald allen which founded ptolemy i soter who everything him comes proclus commentary cent ad he writes collected eudoxus theorems per fected many theaetetus completed fragmentary works left others his synthesis these materials masterful scarcely any today unfamiliar with this said first inquired if there a shorter way learn than royal road another anecdote relates after learn...