Euclid
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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.
The poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote a sonnet, "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare," an appreciation of the intrinsic beauty of mathematics.[1]
References
- ↑ Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare, online text