Euclid As Founding Father | Adam Kucharski | Nautilus | 13th October 2016

Euclid refounded mathematics on the basis of definitions and self-evident axioms that needed no proof, and so revolutionised our approach to knowledge: “A person of reason would have to accept a proven fact, no matter what their personal beliefs or convictions were”. Euclid’s logic reshaped science and the arts. “What’s less recognised is its role in the creation of modern politics: The distance from proofs about equilateral triangles to the foundations of democracy turned out to be two millennia”