| − | '''Euclide''' was a Greek mathematician who lived 325-365 B.C. in Hellenistic [[Alexandria]]. He was the father of geometry and wrote the ''[[Elements]]'' which is considered to be one of the most succesful mathematics textbooks ever. Euclid's Elements focuses mainly on geometry but also has a small amount of number theory dealing with [[prime number|prime numbers]] and even [[perfect number|perfect numbers]]. | + | '''Euclid''' was a Greek mathematician who lived 325-365 B.C. in Hellenistic [[Alexandria]]. He was the father of geometry and wrote the ''[[Elements]]'' which is considered to be one of the most succesful mathematics textbooks ever. Euclid's Elements focuses mainly on [[geometry]] but also has a small amount of number theory dealing with [[prime number|prime numbers]] and even [[perfect number|perfect numbers]]. |