authentic originals, including 'The Elements'. ‘The Elements’ was finished around 300BCE in Alexandria. The historical significance of the epoch-making masterpiece is, in geometry, it sets an earliest model of the method using axiomatic deductive mathematical system. In ‘The Elements’, Euclid apply logical chain to expand whole geometry. At first, he made the appropriate selection of axioms and postulates, which are very difficult tasks, requiring extraordinary judgment and insight, and no one have…
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