This systematization manifested itself in the creation of several texts attempting to
encompass the entire body of known geometry, culminating in the thirteen volume
Elements by Euclid (300 BC). Though not the first geometry text, Euclid’s Elements
were sufficiently comprehensive to render superfluous all that came before it, earning
Euclid the historical role of the father of all geometers. Today, the lay-person is familiar
with only two, if any, names in geometry, Pythagoras, due the accessibility and utility of
the theorem bearing his name, and Euclid, because the geometry studied by every high
school student has been labeled “Euclidean Geometry”.