Euclid, Greek mathematician, 325-270 B.C. He wrote the definitive work on geometry called "Elements," which, since invention of the printing press, has gone through more than a thousand editions. He worked and studied under Ptolemy I at Alexandria, following the death of Alexander the Great. Among his axioms are: the whole is equal to the sum of its parts, and the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Later it came to be realized that axioms were just agreed upon statements, and not necessarily absolute truths. The invention of non-Euclidean geometry was used by Einstein when developing his general and special theories of relativity.

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Euclid, Greek mathematician, 325-270 B.C. He wrote the definitive work on geometry called "Elements," which, since invention of the printing press, has gone through more than a thousand editions. He worked and studied under Ptolemy I at Alexandria, following the death of Alexander the Great. Among his axioms are: the whole is equal to the sum of its parts, and the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Later it came to be realized that axioms were just agreed upon statements, and not necessarily absolute truths. The invention of non-Euclidean geometry was used by Einstein when developing his general and special theories of relativity.

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Euclid, Greek mathematician, 325-270 B.C. He wrote the definitive work on geometry called "Elements," which, since invention of the printing press, has gone through more than a thousand editions. He worked and studied under Ptolemy I at Alexandria, following the death of Alexander the Great. Among his axioms are: the whole is equal to the sum of its parts, and the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Later it came to be realized that axioms were just agreed upon statements, and not necessarily absolute truths. The invention of non-Euclidean geometry was used by Einstein when developing his general and special theories of relativity.

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