Book:Euclid/The Elements/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Euclid's The Elements
Despite difficulties with the Fifth Postulate, the Euclidean geometry presented in The Elements survived unquestioned until the $19$th century, at which time the non-Euclidean geometry of János Bolyai and Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was formulated.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Euclid (c. 300-260 bc)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Euclid (c.300-260 bc)