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...'s Elements|Elements]]''.<ref>[[Thomas L. Heath]], ''The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements'', 2nd ed. [Facsimile. Original publication: Cambridge Universit ...surviving description of the Euclidean algorithm is in [[Euclid's Elements|Euclid's ''Elements'']] (c. 300 BC), making it one of the oldest numerical algorit ...

...rigyear = 1881| title = A sequel to the first six books of the Elements of Euclid|isbn=978-1418166090|publisher=Hodges, Figgis & co.|year= 1886| page = 122}} ...ich he used to solve the '''LPP''' case (a line and two points). Following Euclid a second time, Viète solved the '''LLL''' case (three lines) using the [[an ...

|school_tradition = [[Euclid|Euclid of Alexandria]]<br />[[Natural philosophy]] ...ublisher=Prentice-Hall |isbn=0-02-318285-7 |pages=150 |quote=Shortly after Euclid, compiler of the definitive textbook, came Archimedes of Syracuse (ca. 287& ...

...th a piece of coal on a wall. From then on, the boy was allowed to study [[Euclid]]; perhaps more importantly, he was allowed to sit in as a silent on-looker .../euclid/en/school-bp.asp The Blaise Pascal School of Computing Sciences at Euclid University] ...

...theory of [[perfect numbers]], which had fascinated mathematicians since [[Euclid]]. Euler also made progress toward the [[prime number theorem]], and he co ...

*{{cite book |last=Mazur |first=Joseph |title=Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truths in Logic and Math |year=200 ...