Euclid
Euclid by Jusepe de Ribera, c. 1630–1635
Euclid was an ancient Hellenistic Egyptian mathematician who heavily influenced geometry . He lived in Egypt around 300 BC.
He is best known for his seminal work, Elements , which systematically compiled and organized the knowledge of geometry available at his time. This work laid the foundational principles of geometry through a logical framework based on five postulates and various definitions.
Mathematicians
Apollonius Autolycus Callippus Carpus Chrysippus Conon Dionysodorus Eudoxus Hipparchus Isidore Nicoteles Simplicius Sporus Thales Theodosius Theon of Smyrna Xenocrates
Anthemius Isidore Menaechmus Metrodorus Proclus Greece
Aristaeus Aristarchus Bion Cleomedes Diocles Dinostratus Eudemus Geminus Hypatia Leo Metrodorus Nicomedes Perseus Philon Zenodorus
Eratosthenes Theodorus
Eutocius Marinus
Heron Porphyry Thales Zeno of Sidon
Boethius
Archimedes Dicaearchus Zeno of Elea
Carpus Domninus Nicomachus Posidonius
Treatises
Conics (Apollonius) On Sizes and Distances (Hipparchus) On the Moving Sphere (Autolycus)
Arithmetica On Sizes and Distances (Hipparchus)
Almagest Arithmetica Elements (Euclid) On Sizes and Distances (Hipparchus) Greece
On the Sizes and Distances (Aristarchus)
Archimedes Palimpsest The Sand Reckoner
Centers
Problems
Problem of Apollonius Squaring the circle Doubling the cube Angle trisection Influences Influenced
Timeline of Hellenistic mathematicians