Euclid

Al-Nayrīzī also attempted a proof of Euclid’s famous postulate about parallel lines never meeting.

Among his surviving works is a translation and commentary on Euclid’s Elements.

Mary Fairfax Somerville, who was deliberately kept out of the schoolroom by her practical parents, discovered Euclid in her family’s library and moved on from geometry to trigonometry and astronomy.

Similarly, University Circle police issued citations to 32 drivers from one ZIP code in Euclid, a city northeast of the hospital area.

Even the very first proposition in Euclid’s Elements isn’t perfect.

Two clear examples: One poster reads "EUCLID" in big letters.

His new book is Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Numbers.

A few years ago, a Bosnian family named Vidovic came to Euclid, Ohio, to escape persecution by Serbs in an embattled region.

It fell into the three more or less isolated subjects of arithmetic, algebra and Euclid.

Audacity, ever excellent in war, is sound as a proposition of Euclid in operations against Asiatics.

Belle was to be godmother and had to be got down; which was impossible, as the jester Euclid says.

Yet, as we have shown, it is not found in Aristotle, Aristoxenus or Euclid—to say nothing of later writers.

The Greek philosophers are said to have posted on the doors of their schools "Let no one enter here who does not know his Euclid."