Euclid Quote

There is no royal road to geometry.

To Ptolemy I, when asked if there was a shorter road to learning geometry than through Euclid's Elements

From Proclus (412–485 AD), Commentary on Euclid, Prologue. Some historians consider this quotation apocryphal.


There is no royal road to geometry.

There is no royal road to geometry.

There is no royal road to geometry.

There is no royal road to geometry.