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Look up: Euclid

  1. Euclid
    mathematician; his famous text, which writes the laws of geometry, is his Stoicheion or Elements that was published in 300 BCE.
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  2. Euclid
    [n] - Greek geometer (3rd century BC)
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Euclid
    Euclid was a Greek mathematician; he taught in Alexandria, circa 300 BC. There is evidence that he wrote a number of works, but they have been lost to us. His work, Elements, however, was found, the Arabian mathematicians having carefully preserved it for the rest of us, as western man struggled thr...
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  4. Euclid
    Eu'clid noun A Greek geometer of the 3d century b. c. ; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/E/72

  5. euclid
    A Greek geometer of the 3d century; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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  6. Euclid
    noun Greek geometer (3rd century BC)
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  7. Euclid
    • (n.) A Greek geometer of the 3d century b. c.; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general.
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  8. Euclid
    the most prominent mathematician of Greco-Roman antiquity, best known for his treatise on geometry, the Elements.[24 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/50

  9. Euclid
    city, Cuyahoga county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., on Lake Erie, just northeast of Cleveland. The original township area was settled in 1797 and was ...
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  10. Euclid
    Euclid is a Greek boy name. The meaning of the name is `Intelligent` The name Euclid doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Euclid seems to be unique!
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  11. Euclid
    Euclid of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician. His book the Elements of Geometry set down how geometry was to be taught for the next 2000 years. He was born in 365 BC and died in 275 BC.
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  13. Euclid
    Euclid (yOO'klid) , fl. 300 B.C., Greek mathematician. Little is known of his life other than the fact that he taught at Alexandria, being associated with the school that grew up there in the late 4th cent. B.C. He is famous for his Elements, a presentation in thirteen books of the geometry and ...
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  14. Euclid
    Euclid, city (1990 pop. 54,875), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a suburb adjoining Cleveland, on Lake Erie; settled 1798, inc. 1848. Named for the famous Greek mathematician, the industrial city manufactures metal goods, electrical supplies and equipment, airplane and automobile parts, and machinery. The Na...
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  15. Euclid
    (c. 400 B.C.) Of Megara, founder of the Megarian School. He was chiefly interested in the theory of refutation. See Megarians. Euclid of Megara identified the good and the One. The many are unreal. Not to be confused with the great geometer who lived at Alexandria (c. 300 B.C.), author of the Elemen...
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  16. Euclid
    Greek mathematician who wrote the Stoicheia/Elements in 13 books, nine of which deal with plane and solid geometry and four with number theory. His great achievement lay in the systematic arrangement of previous mathematical discoveries and a methodology based on axioms, definitions, and theorems. Euclid's works, and the ...
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  17. Euclid
    `Euclid` ( ; EukleidÄ“s), fl. 300 BC, also known as `Euclid of Alexandria`, was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "Father of Geometry". He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I (323–283 BC). His Elements is one of the most inf...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid

  18. Euclid
    (computer program) `Euclid` is a CAD software which was developed since 1980 by the French company Matra Datavision. Matra then developed EUCLID QUANTUM, a new generation in 1996, on the platform CAS.CADE (Computer Aided Software for Computer Aided Design and Engineering). As in 1998 Matra Da...
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  19. Euclid
    (programming language) `Euclid` is an imperative programming language for writing verifiable programs. It was designed by Butler Lampson and associates at the Xerox PARC lab in the mid 1970s. The implementation was led by Ric Holt at the University of Toronto and James Cordy was the principal...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid

  20. Euclid
    (disambiguation) `Euclid` was a Greek mathematician from Alexandria who authored Elements. The name has subsequently been used to refer to: People: Mathematics, science, and technology: Higher education: Geographical: Related to Cleveland, Ohio: Places in New York State: Fiction:
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12 February 2012

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/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

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