Euclid (/ˈjuːklɪd/; Greek: Εὐκλείδης; fl. 300 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. Considered the "father of geometry"...
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Look up Euclid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Euclid generally refers to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (3rd century BC), who...
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Euclidean geometry (redirect from Euclid's postulates)
attributed to ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, which he described in his textbook on geometry, Elements. Euclid's approach consists in assuming a small...
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treatise consisting of 13 books attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid c. 300 BC. It is a collection of definitions, postulates, propositions (theorems...
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Euclidean algorithm (redirect from Euclids algorithm)
In mathematics, the Euclidean algorithm, or Euclid's algorithm, is an efficient method for computing the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two integers...
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Euclid is a wide-angle space telescope with a 600-megapixel camera to record visible light, a near-infrared spectrometer, and photometer, to determine...
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Euclid is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. Located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is an inner ring suburb of Cleveland. The population...
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In algebra and number theory, Euclid's lemma is a lemma that captures a fundamental property of prime numbers: Euclid's lemma — If a prime p divides the...
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Parallel postulate (redirect from Euclid's fifth postulate)
geometry, the parallel postulate, also called Euclid's fifth postulate because it is the fifth postulate in Euclid's Elements, is a distinctive axiom in Euclidean...
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Euclid is an imperative programming language for writing verifiable programs. It was designed in the mid-1970s by Butler Lampson and James G. Mitchell...
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Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365 (1926), more commonly known as Euclid v. Ambler, was a United States Supreme Court landmark case...
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Concurrent Euclid (ConEuc) is a concurrent descendant of the Euclid programming language designed by James Cordy and Ric Holt, then at the University of...
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Euclid's theorem is a fundamental statement in number theory that asserts that there are infinitely many prime numbers. It was first proven by Euclid...
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Pythagorean theorem (redirect from 47th Problem of Euclid)
Thomas Heath gives this proof in his commentary on Proposition I.47 in Euclid's Elements, and mentions the proposals of German mathematicians Carl Anton...
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In mathematics, Euclid numbers are integers of the form En = pn # + 1, where pn # is the nth primorial, i.e. the product of the first n prime numbers....
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Euclid of Megara (/ˈjuːklɪd/; Greek: Εὐκλείδης Eucleides; c. 435 – c. 365 BC) was a Greek Socratic philosopher who founded the Megarian school of philosophy...
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Euclid Beach Park was an amusement park located on the southern shore of Lake Erie in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, which operated from...
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Dweezil Zappa (redirect from Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa)
Dweezil Zappa (born Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa; September 5, 1969) is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor. He is the son of musical composer...
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South Euclid is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is an inner-ring suburb of Cleveland located on the city's east side. As of the 2020...
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Euclid Stefanou Tsakalotos (Greek: Ευκλείδης Στεφάνου Τσακαλώτος, Greek pronunciation: [efˈkliðis steˈfanu t͜sakaˈlotos]; born 1960) is a Greek economist...
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Euclid Township is a township in Polk County, Minnesota, United States. It is part of the Grand Forks-ND-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population...
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Data (Greek: Δεδομένα, Dedomena) is a work by Euclid. It deals with the nature and implications of "given" information in geometrical problems. The subject...
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Euclid Avenue may refer to: California State Route 83 or Euclid Avenue in San Bernardino County, California Euclid Avenue (Ontario and Upland, California)...
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Euclid–Green is a neighborhood on the Northeast side of Cleveland, Ohio. It is "shaped somewhat like an isosceles triangle" and is bounded by the neighborhood...
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The Euclid Consortium is a distance learning educational consortium created in 2005 by the University of Bangui (Central African Republic), the Université...
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The Euclid Tree is a giant sequoia located in the Mountain Home Grove, one of several sequoia groves found in the southern Sierra Nevada of California...
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Euclid Creek is a 43-mile (69 km) long stream located in Cuyahoga and Lake counties in the state of Ohio in the United States. The 11.5-mile (18.5 km)...
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Euclid is a CAD software which has been developed since 1970. Initially written by Jean Marc Brun and Michel Théron at Laboratoire d'informatique pour...
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EUCLID, also called Pôle Universitaire Euclide or Euclid University, is an international intergovernmental organization with a university charter established...
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Nicholas "Nick" Euclid OAM (15 March 1932 – 27 September 2007) was Chairman of Queensland Rugby League Referees' Association and founding Chairman of the...
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