Chimp_Logic wrote on Sep 24
th, 2016 at 9:31pm:
it_is_the_light wrote on Sep 24
th, 2016 at 8:27pm:
This lead me to uncovering the fact that in our ancient world many of our greatest minds were initiates of these mystery schools such as Percales, Plutarch, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zoroaster, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Herodotus, Hippocrates,
, Democritus- all trained in the great mystery schools of Egypt and Greece.
Euclid was basically a librarian clown. He did not arrive at any Mathematical enlightenment during the Ancient Hellenic Era. He merely collated the knowledge and discoveries up to the time he was living.
What other grand postal errors have you made Mr Photon?
Do you even bother to check the fine details of the web vomit that you cite?
You are very close to breaching the apology threshold and self banishment requirements.
And you dont have Jethro to help you this time - did you know that Jethro is the resident Mental Giant of Ozpolotic?
Amazing isnt it Mr Photon
many blessings beloved chimp
yet one may not be familiar with your papers of knowledge " banana news "

yet let us explore the mathematician of antiquity Euclid, since ye hath askedthed
http://www.storyofmathematics.com/hellenistic_euclid.html HELLENISTIC MATHEMATICS - EUCLID

Euclid (c.330-275 BCE, fl. c.300 BCE)
The Greek mathematician Euclid lived and flourished in Alexandria in Egypt around 300 BCE, during the reign of Ptolemy I. Almost nothing is known of his life, and no likeness or first-hand description of his physical appearance has survived antiquity, and so depictions of him (with a long flowing beard and cloth cap) in works of art are necessarily the products of the artist's imagination.
He probably studied for a time at Plato's Academy in Athens but, by Euclid's time, Alexandria, under the patronage of the Ptolemies and with its prestigious and comprehensive Library, had already become a worthy rival to the great Academy.
Euclid is often referred to as the “Father of Geometry”, and he wrote perhaps the most important and successful mathematical textbook of all time, the “Stoicheion” or “Elements”, which represents the culmination of the mathematical revolution which had taken place in Greece up to that time. He also wrote works on the division of geometrical figures into into parts in given ratios, on catoptrics (the mathematical theory of mirrors and reflection), and on spherical astronomy (the determination of the location of objects on the "celestial sphere"), as well as important texts on optics and music.

Euclid’s method for constructing of an equilateral triangle from a given straight line segment AB using only a compass and straight edge was Proposition 1 in Book 1 of the "Elements"
The "Elements” was a lucid and comprehensive compilation and explanation of all the known mathematics of his time, including the work of Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Theudius, Theaetetus and Eudoxus. In all, it contains 465 theorems and proofs, described in a clear, logical and elegant style, and using only a compass and a straight edge. Euclid reworked the mathematical concepts of his predecessors into a consistent whole, later to become known as Euclidean geometry, which is still as valid today as it was 2,300 years ago, even in higher mathematics dealing with higher dimensional spaces. It was only with the work of Bolyai, Lobachevski and Riemann in the first half of the 19th Century that any kind of non-Euclidean geometry was even considered.
The "Elements” remained the definitive textbook on geometry and mathematics for well over two millennia, surviving the eclipse in classical learning in Europe during the Dark Ages through Arabic translations. It set, for all time, the model for mathematical argument, following logical deductions from inital assumptions (which Euclid called “axioms” and "postulates") in order to establish proven theorems.
Euclid’s five general axioms were:
Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other.
If equals are added to equals, the wholes (sums) are equal.
If equals are subtracted from equals, the remainders (differences) are equal.
Things that coincide with one another are equal to one another.
The whole is greater than the part.
and so on ...
http://www.storyofmathematics.com/hellenistic_euclid.htmland the beloved chimp calls Euclid
Quote:Euclid was basically a librarian clown.
this is exposed forgiven and stands as a testimony to your chimpish ignorances
namaste