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Euclid

Overview

The Teacher of the Ages.

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What is it?

Greek mathematician who wrote 'The Elements', the most successful textbook in human history. It was used for 2,300 years!

History

300 BC. He organized all the messy rules of geometry into a perfect, logical system of proofs.

Key Idea

He proved there is no largest prime number. The list goes on forever.