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Elements
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mathematical treatise by Euclid
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Euclid’s *Elements* is a mathematical work dated to 300 BCE. The text has been published in 171 editions, with the first publication occurring in 1482. It is referenced by 862 other encyclopedia articles.
The work is associated with the Commons category "Elements of Euclid" and appears in abbreviations tables as "Euc." Digital copies are available through various online repositories.
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- Author
- Euclid
- First published
- 1482
- Editions
- 171
- Subjects
- Fundamentos Da Geometria, great_books_of_the_western_world, Geometria Analitica, Mathematics, Geometria, Géométrie, Algebra, great_books
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- reference work
- Author
- Euclid
- Genre
- treatise
- Main subject
- mathematics
- Image
- Title page of Sir Henry Billingsley's first English version of Euclid's Elements, 1570 (560x900).jpg
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- Commons category
- Elements of Euclid
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- language of work or name
- Ancient Greek
- work available at URL
- www.claymath.org/euclid/index
- copyright status
- public domain
- after a work by
- Theaetetus
- title
- Στοιχεῖα
- different from
- Element
- entry in abbreviations table
- Euc.
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- inception
- 0300-00-00
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
The Elements (Ancient Greek: Στοιχεῖα Stoikheîa) is a mathematical treatise written c. 300 BC by the Ancient Greek mathematician Euclid.
The Elements is the oldest extant large-scale deductive treatment of mathematics. Drawing on the works of earlier mathematicians such as Hippocrates of Chios, Eudoxus of Cnidus, and Theaetetus, the Elements is a collection in 13 books of definitions, postulates, geometric constructions, and theorems with their proofs that covers plane and solid Euclidean geometry, elementary number theory, and incommensurability. These include the Pythagorean theorem, Thales' theorem, the Euclidean algorithm for greatest common divisors, Euclid's theorem that there are infinitely many prime numbers, and the construction of regular polygons and polyhedra.
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