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.
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.[1]
Vachel Lindsay's poem, Euclid, views him in a less reverential way:
Old Euclid drew a circle
On a sand-beach long ago.
He bounded and enclosed it
With angles thus and so.
His set of solemn greybeards
Nodded and argued much
Of arc and of circumference,
Diameter and such.
A silent child stood by them
From morning until noon
Because they drew such charming
Round pictures of the moon.
References
- ↑ Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare, online text