Euclid divided his famous treatise “The Elements” into:
(A) 13 chapters
(B) 12 chapters
(C) 11 chapters
(D) 9 chapters
(A) 13 chapters
Solution:
Euclid divided his famous treatise “The Elements” into 13 chapters. It is a collection of definitions, postulates, theorems and mathematical proofs of these theorems.
The books cover elementary number theory, plane and solid Euclidean geometry. Euclid's Elements is considered as the most influential and successful textbook ever written.
Hence option (A) is correct