Florian Cajori Quote

Comparatively few of the propositions and proofs in the Elements are his [Euclid's] own discoveries. In fact, the proof of the "Theorem of Pythagoras" is the only one directly ascribed to him.


p. 30, Reported in Moritz (1914) - A History of Mathematics (1893)


Comparatively few of the propositions and proofs in the Elements are his [Euclid's] own discoveries. In fact, the proof of the Theorem of Pythagoras...

Comparatively few of the propositions and proofs in the Elements are his [Euclid's] own discoveries. In fact, the proof of the Theorem of Pythagoras...

Comparatively few of the propositions and proofs in the Elements are his [Euclid's] own discoveries. In fact, the proof of the Theorem of Pythagoras...

Comparatively few of the propositions and proofs in the Elements are his [Euclid's] own discoveries. In fact, the proof of the Theorem of Pythagoras...