What was Euclid really doing? | Guest video by Ben Syversen
September 18, 2025
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as posted by the channelWhat role were ruler and compass constructions really serving?
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Written, produced, edited, and animated by Ben Syversen
Additional editing: Jack Saxon
3d Blender model: Jan-Hendrik Müller
Additional Blender help: Thibaut Modrzyk (@Deepia)
Illustrations: Alex Zepherin/DonDada Studio
Camera: Giacomo Belletti
Drums: Jeremy Gustin
Additional music from Epidemic Sound
Special thanks to Viktor Blåsjö
Lean footage is borrowed from Alex Kontorovich’s lecture series on formal Euclidean geometry
References/Recommended reading:
Euclid’s Elements:
Visual edition of Book 1
Euclid’s Elements in full
The Thirteen Books of The Elements, translated with introduction and commentary by Sir Thomas L. Heath
Commentary and academic papers:
A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid’s Elements, Proclus, translated by Glenn R. Morrow
OperationalismAn Interpretation of the Philosophy of Ancient Greek Geometry, Viktor Blåsjö
The Euclidean Diagram, Kenneth Manders
A New Look at Euclid’s Second Proposition, Godfried Toussaint
Logic of Ruler and Compass Constructions, M. Beeson
Euclid’s Fourth Postulate, Vincenzo De Risi
Some related books:
Euclid’s Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace, Leonard Mlodinow
The Geometry of Rene Descartes, Rene Descartes
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