Name: NANTENI A/P GANESAN (KJC1050382) RITA A/P VILVANATHAN (KJC1050140) PRASHALINI A/P KOOMERDESHAN (KJC1080456) Course Code:

ESB4164 [2] - Perspective in Mathematics Semester: JANUARY 2012

Name of Lecturer/Tutor: EN. AHMAD ZAWAWI BIN ABDULLAH

 The Greek mathematicians(math expert)

Born: c. 335 B.C.E., Greece Died: c. 270 B.C.E., Alexandria, Egypt Greatest mathematicians in the world.

Studied at Athens under students of Greek philosopher Plato (c. 428348 or 347B.C.)
before he founded a school of mathematics in Alexandria, Egypt, during the reign of Ptolemy I Is best known for his work titled Elements, a thirteen-volume textbook on the

principles of mathematics.

Reasons for choosing the Mathematician to study :His major contributions are in geometry and in his book The Elements; he gave many rules of geometry which are also used nowadays. Books of Euclid provide a base of geometry. Euclids ideas and theories are still considered as basics of mathematics. His most famous work was Metrics. It will also help us in knowing the relation of mathematics to other varied elements of culture such as art, architecture, crafts, religion, philosophy and etc. By studying about this mathematician we can get to know the depth of the subject. Besides that, expose to method how this mathematician derived many new theories and calculation. Make the students more eager to learn mathematic. A study of the history of mathematics will help us to understand this cultural heritance.

Important events in the Mathematician life.

Next to the Bible, Euclid's Elements is probably the most reproduced book in the Western world.
Euclid's method of proving mathematical theorems by logical reasoning from accepted first principles remains the backbone of mathematics His Elements is the most successful textbook in the history of mathematics. Euclid also wrote works on perspective, conic sections, spherical geometry, and possibly quadric surfaces.

The Mathematician accomplishment in Mathematics

1) Elements
The Elements consists of thirteen books. Each book contains a number of theorems, from about ten to one hundred, which follow a series of definitions. Euclid's the Elements are five key postulates or axioms. They are: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part of a line can be drawn between two given points. Such a part line can be extended indefinitely in either direction. A circle can be drawn with any radius with any given point at its center. All right angles are equal. If part of a line crosses two other lines so that the inner angles on the same side add up to less than two right angles, then the two lines it crosses must eventually meet.

Euclids elements proposition 1

 The book include the treatises on plane geometry, propotion, astronomy, and music. Euclids first few books of element are still used until now to teach plane geometry by modified the versions. Euclid is famous because his book are very easy to understand. His books are used as the main math book in all schools in Europe, West Asia, and America for 2 thousand years, until the 20th century. He wrote the Elements, a thirteen-volume set of textbooks of geometry (the study of points, lines, angles, and surfaces)the oldest major mathematical work existing in the Western world.

Interesting facts about the Mathematician

Euclids life. Little is known about Euclid's life, as there are only a handful of references to him. The date and place of Euclid's birth and the date and circumstances of his death are unknown. No likeness or description of Euclid's physical appearance made during his lifetime survived antiquity. Therefore, Euclid's depiction in works of art is the product of the artist's imagination. Euclid and Mathematics. Euclid was the first to realize that parallel lines don't necessarily meet or that parallel lines cannot avoid meeting, both forerunners of modern non-Euclidian geometries, of great importance to General Relativity. He had to accept a parallel line postulate because it couldn't be proven, in order to proceed with what's now called "Euclidian Geometry".

References
http://chabyeofmath.wordpress.com/geometri-euclid/ http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Euclid.aspx http://telasiado.suite101.com/euclids-life-and-the- elements-a93783 https://www.google.com.my/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

http://www.youtube.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid