This man lived in the time of the first Ptolemy; for Archimedes, who followed closely upon the first Ptolemy makes mention of Euclid, and further they say that Ptolemy once asked him if there were a shorted way to study geometry than the Elements, to which he replied that there was no royal road to geometry. ... Though Euclid is most famous for his writings on geometry, it is the quadratic formula that has been at the forefront of problems dealing with area, and in turn, dimensional objects. ... The work studies arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry and, despite the lack of original...

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