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A Greek mathematician who lived 325-365 B.C. in Hellenistic Alexandria. He was the father of geometry and wrote ''Elements.''
A Greek mathematician who lived 325-365 B.C. in Hellenistic Alexandria. He was the father of geometry and wrote ''Elements.''
==In poetry==
The poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote a [[sonnet]], "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare," an appreciation of the intrinsic beauty of mathematics.<ref>[http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/txt/604.txt Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare], online text</ref>
The poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote a [[sonnet]], "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare," an appreciation of the intrinsic beauty of mathematics.<ref>[http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/txt/604.txt Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare], online text</ref>
Vachel Lindsay's poem, ''Euclid,'' views him in a less reverential way:
Old Euclid drew a circle<br>
On a sand-beach long ago.<br>
He bounded and enclosed it<br>
With angles thus and so.<br>
His set of solemn greybeards<br>
Nodded and argued much<br>
Of arc and of circumference,<br>
Diameter and such.<br>
A silent child stood by them<br>
From morning until noon<br>
Because they drew such charming<br>
Round pictures of the moon.<br>
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