Who are Euclid Elements' competition?

The First Translation of Euclid's Elements into Chinese. In 1601 a group of Jesuit missionaries led by Matteo Ricci, S.J. (1552-1610) entered mainland China, seeking to evangelize the Chinese to Christianity. read more

Euclid's Elements. The Elements (Ancient Greek: στοιχεῖα Stoicheia) is a mathematical treatise consisting of 13 books attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt circa 300 BC. It is a collection of definitions, postulates, propositions (theorems and constructions), and mathematical proofs of the propositions. read more