Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #20: Euclid (325BC - 270BC) Euclid was a Greek mathematician and arguably the most prominent mathematician of all time. He is best known for his treatise on mathematics The Elements. In it, the principles of Euclidean geometry are deduced from a small set of axioms. Euclid's method of proving mathematical theorems by logical reasoning from accepted first principles remains the foundation of mathematics. The Elements is one of history's most translated, published and studied books. Almost from the time of its writing and lasting almost to the present, the Elements has exerted a continuous and major influence on scientists and mathematicians. The book still can be considered one of the most precise, elegant and understandable books of mathematics, even after two thousand years. Its practical influence has helped to create and improve the modern world. Go to #21: Herodotus Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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