Euclid's "The Elements" is a foundational mathematical treatise comprising 13 books that systematically present geometry and number theory. It is one of the most influential works in the history of mathematics, shaping Western thought for over two millennia.
Sources for Euclid — The Elements
Euclid — The Elements in Mathematics
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- Archimedes — The Works (c. 250 BCE)
- George Boole — The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847)
- T.L. Heath — Diophantus Of Alexandria: A Study In the History of Greek Algebra (1910)
- L.F. Menabrea — Sketch of the Analytical Engine (with Notes by Ada Lovelace) (1843)
- Isaac Newton — Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Leonhard Euler — Elements of Algebra (1770)
- Bernhard Riemann — On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bases of Geometry (1854)
- Leibniz — Nova Methodus pro Maximis et Minimis (1684)
- Georg Cantor — On a Property of the Collection of All Real Algebraic Numbers (1874)
- David Hilbert — The Foundations of Geometry (1899)
- Ahmes — The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (c. 1550 BCE)
- Anonymous — The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art (九章算術) (c. 200 BCE–100 CE)
- Aryabhata — Aryabhatiya (499 CE)
- Bhāskara II — Lilavati (1150 CE)
- Al-Khwarizmi — The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing (c. 820 CE)
- Fibonacci — Liber Abaci (1202)