Labels:book | person | press | school newspaper | sculpture OCR: EUCLID c. 300 BC) "HE GREEK mathematician Euclid worked in Alexandria, Egypt, 2,300 years ago. Few details of his life remain. but he F famous for writing Elements series of 13 books. These contained geometric principles and theorems that were to form the basis of mathematics For more than ,000 years. In fact, these books were so clearly written that updated versions were still in use schools it the early 1900s Although some of Euclid theorems still hold good today ma thema tician and physicist Albert Einstein (1879 1955 later proved that Euclid's geometry was not valid throughout space and time Euclid also wrote on music and other subjects. ALSO STORY othet
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