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Euclid: Yes, sure, why not. So what do you want to ask me?
Ammar: If you won’t mind, can I ask some personal questions in the beginning of the interview?
Euclid: OK! I won’t mind unless they are too personal.
Ammar: What date were you born, and where were you born?
Euclid: I am not sure about my date of birth because in those days there were no birth certificates and our parents don’t keep record of the dates of births. I believe I was born around 300 BC. I was born in Alexandria, Athens, Greece.
Ammar: Did you marry? How many kids do you have?
Euclid: Well, I married and I have two kids. The eldest on is a boy and the younger one is a girl.
Ammar: What school you went to? Tell us something about it.
Euclid: I went to Alexandria School. It is situated in Athens, Greece. The teachers of that school were the pupils of Plato. After I graduated from that school I started teaching in that school. After working for a while I created a school of mathematics and then I started teaching there.
Ammar: Were you interested in mathema
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Ammar: You did some work in mythology too.
Ammar: Some of your works didn’t gain that much popularity.
Ammar: What contributions you made in mathematics?
Euclid: You know that I devoted my whole life in the field of math and I think all of my works are a contribution to the field of math.
Ammar: In your opinion what is a proposition Sir. It opens with definitions of the different senses in which things are said to be “given”. In this book I followed the Platonic tradition that vision is caused by discrete rays which emanate from the eye because I felt the reason that they stated was mostly similar to the results that I obtained(Bulmer-Thomas, p. The figures include triangle, parallelogram, trapezia, circles quadrilaterals, and figures bound by an arc of a circle and two straight lines from a given angle. Tell us about those works of your that are unknown to us.
Euclid: It was my pleasure to meet you.
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