What is the name of 13 books written in Alexandria around 300 BC, a collection of definitions, axioms, theorems, constructions and proofs was used as the basic text on geometry throughout the Western world for about 2,000 years?
Euclid's Elements Euclid's Elements, first set in type in Venice in 1482, is one of the earliest mathematical works to be printed after the invention of the printing press and is estimated to be second only to the Bible in the number of editions published, with the number reaching well over one thousand.
