MCQ
The total number of propositions in the Euclid’s Elements is:
- ✓$465$
- B$13$
- C$460$
- D$32$
✓
Answer
Correct option: A.
$465$
Euclid's Elements is a mathematical and geometric treatise consisting of $13$ books attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt circa $300 \ BC$. It is a collection of definitions, postulates (axioms), propositions (theorems and constructions), and mathematical proofs of the propositions. There are $131$ definitions, $465 $propositions, $5$ Postulates and $5$ common notions in Euclid's Elements.
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