3-2 Short Paper: Euclid and His Elements Assignment
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Write a short paper on the history of Euclid's Elements. As it was written during the third century BCE, how has it survived? State Euclid's fifth postulate and explain why mathematicians spent centuries trying to prove it. How are the ideas in Euclid's Elements prevalent today? References must be included. Include three or more references and use proper APA formatting. The references should be from primary or secondary scholarly sources with a maximum of one source in another format (article in an encyclopedia or chapter in a textbook, for example). You can use the History Library Guide to research scholarly articles.