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1. Euclid

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   The Elements
   The Elements is Euclid's most celebrated and influential treatise, organized into thirteen books. It systematically presents geometry, number theory, and what is now termed reductive mechanics. The work’s genius lies not in the novelty of all its propositions, but in its rigorous structuring, beginning from a small set of definitions, postulates, and [c…