History of geometry Euclid (c. 325-265 BC), of Alexandria, probably a student at the Academy founded by Plato, wrote a treatise in 13 books (chapters), titled "The Elements of Geometry", in which he presented geometry in an ideal axiomatic form, which came to be known as Euclidean geometry. The treatise is not a compendium of all that the Hellenistic mathematicians knew at the time about geometry; Euclid himself wrote eight more advanced books on geometry. We know from other references that Euclid’s was not the first elementary geometry textbook, but it was so much superior that the others fell into disuse and were
The Fractal Geometry of Nature The Fractal Geometry of Nature The Fractal Geometry of Nature is a 1982 book by the Franco-American mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot. "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" is a revised and enlarged version of his 1977 book entitled "Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension", which in turn was a revised, enlarged, and translated version of his 1975 French book, "Les Objects Fractals: Forme, Hasard et Dimension". "American Scientist" put the book in its one hundred books of 20th century science. As technology has improved mathematically accurate, computer-drawn fractals have become more detailed. Early drawings were low-resolution black and white; later drawings were higher