For other uses, see Euclid.

Euclid was a Greek mathematician who lived in the fourth or third centuries BC, known for inventing classical geometry, a.k.a. Euclidian geometry.

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The 20th century poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote the poem "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare" in 1922 about the joy Euclid would have felt when first envisioning geometric math. Spock mentioned the poem to James T. Kirk and Leonard McCoy in 2267 while trying to describe his experience with the Joy Machine. (TOS novel: The Joy Machine)

In 2286, Spock encountered Socrates, Plato, and Euclid in a mass illusion of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy poem Inferno. Euclid quipped that Plato was always talking about ideals and couldn't see Euclid's "angle". He urged Spock not to listen to Leonard McCoy, who drew Spock away from the illusions. (TOS - Who Killed Captain Kirk? comic: "Hell in a Handbasket")

It was possible that the Euclid in this story was Euclid of Megara, a Greek philosopher and student of Socrates sometimes confused with Euclid. A guard referred to all three as philosophers. However, Euclid's statement about Plato not understanding his "angle" suggested that he was the geometrist.

In 2375, Harry Kim's perception of Q University, he suspected, would see it populated with professors such as Euclid, Isaac Newton, and Zefram Cochrane. (VOY - String Theory novel: Evolution)

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• Euclid article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.