The Euclid mission, which will measure how the dark universe affects the geometry of the cosmos, is named after the 'father of geometry.'
in the city of Alexandria, which was founded by Alexander the Great in 330 BCE. No one is entirely sure of Euclid’s personal details, including when exactly he was born and died. What we do know are what he left us: his great works of mathematics, particularly"Elements," a treatise on geometry and one of the most widely translated books in the world.
As such, Euclid has become known as the"father of geometry." Much of what Euclid the space mission will do relies on geometry, and howIn particular, we call Euclid's particular brand of geometry" ." It's the geometry that you're taught in school, of flat planes, parallel lines, right angles, trigonometry and the Pythagorean Theorem. , or accepted truths.
From this foundation, Euclid was able to formulate a geometrical system that we still use 2,300 years later in everyday life. However, astronomers are able to look for deviations from Euclidean geometry in space, such as in gravitational lenses, to search for evidence of the dark universe.
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