Christian Marinus Taisbak
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Professor of Greek and Latin, Copenhagen University, Denmark. Author of Division and Logos and Colored Quadrangles.
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Euclid was the most prominent mathematician of Greco-Roman antiquity, best known for his treatise on geometry, the Elements. Of Euclid’s life nothing is known except what the Greek philosopher Proclus (c. 410–485 ce) reports in his “summary” of famous Greek mathematicians. According to him, Euclid…
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