Saturday, April 7, 2012

Euclid: The Great Geometer by Chris Hayhurst

If you're looking for a book about Euclid's life, you won't find one, but this book comes the closest to doing that.
Although historians don't know much about Euclid, the little they know is all wrapped up in this book. Euclid didn't actually invent geometry because how did the ancient Egyptians build the pyramids without knowing any geometry? Euclid did revolutionize geometry though. He wrote a book called The Elements, which told all about his discoveries with math. Many people looked up to him, and some even thought him God.  Of course this was not true, although Euclid was one of the smartest men ever to live. Historians could not discover much about Euclid because he did not really say much about himself during his life due to lack of paper. However historians do know that Euclid was a very humorous man, and joked around to his students. Euclid studied a great deal in Alexandria Library, the biggest library in the world!
Well, that's it about Euclid, Happy Reading! :)

1 comment:

  1. you write all your posts SO well!! I would just write "Euclid was a man". (was he??) lol... :)

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