We are next led through a sample of these proofs, taken from the first of Euclid’s 12 books—including the proof of its most famous result, the Pythagorean Theorem. To understand the life of a ...

the earliest written proof appears in Elements by Euclid, a Greek mathematician in the 4th century BC. But through his research, Zhou found that a complete definition and proof of the theorem ...

Learning about RSA encryption is usually preceded by lessons on Euclid’s Algorithm and the Chinese Remainder Theorem (which, ironically, shares an acronym with critical race theory, CRT).

People continue to find and publish new proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, including famous mathematicians like Euclid, ...