Euclid’s Elements, which presented the state of the art in geometry around 300 B.C., has been extraordinarily influential. This massive, 13-volume compendium set the standard for mathematical ...

Euclid’s Elements was the first major work to organise mathematics as an axiomatic system. Starting from a set of clearly stated and self-evident truths called axioms, a large collection of theorems ...

To give a rational reconstruction and critical evaluation of the traditional account of mathematical knowledge inspired by Euclid’s Elements. All of us have mathematical knowledge, but it seems to ...