During this period Euclid was respected highly as a mathematician and the Elements were considered one of the greatest matematical works of all time. I fit the geometry known as Euclidean Geometry . Euclidean Geometry fits both synthetic and plane coordinate geometry. A line segment extended infinitely in both directions produces a straight line. A circle is dertermined by a center and a distance.
All right angles are equal to one another.
He wrote the 13 Elements . Because of his work in the field of geometry he is called the father of geometry . Most geometry is so named Euclidian Geometry because of his thirteen Elements which summarized most of the geometry during his time. By the 1700's the Elements was the text book. . Revised on or after October 26, 1998.