Euclid is often referred as "the father of Geometry". Geometry exists everywhere in nature, it is the most bare version of beauty. Euclid uses math to show the beauty of nature through the eye of geometry, he also used nature to explore the beauty of mathematics. These two things are naturally inseparable. Euclid's vision on geometry opened all of ours eyes, he created mathematical language to express the beauty of geometry around us. He had a pair of eyes to see through things and noticed the bare bone of lots of things that are related to math.
Thanks to Euclid, we were able to use math to express/sketch the things we see in this world. We were able to document a lot of historical events using math!
From the first poem, it seems like It's Euclid who lifted the veil of mystery of the mathematical behind all the natural beauty. The harmony of nature and math was all along there waiting for humans to discover it, and Euclid noticed it. The gate of math then revealed at that moment. Time never stopped, nature never waited for anyone, nature takes its course and it seemed like Euclid was the savior of the dark time of math and opened the gate of pandora's box of mathematics.
The second poem seems like is criticizing the prasie most people had towards Eulid. It aruges that beauty is in everyone's eyes, math belongs to all of us. No one could be the maker of nature. In other words, no one was the maker of mathematics. Math has been always existed among us, in our day-to-day life. Math is like the air, we breath in and out every day.
Maybe it's a bit off the topic, it reminded me of a movie called Prometheus. Who is the God, who made us? and, who made them? Who made this world and who created the nature which is incredibly beautiful and mathematical?
Good analysis of the two poems in light of Euclid's work, and really interesting connection with the movie Prometheus too!
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