When I started studying Euclid during freshman year of college I finally began to not just enjoy geometry but to understand what it meant.

High school geometry was just unexplained text – the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides - c2 = a2 + b2. I could do the math and pass the tests but it was mere rote memorization.

Euclid showed me what these symbols meant and why. I started to see geometry 3 dimensionally but also with movement. It is that movement I try to illuminate in my animation of Euclid’s propositions.

I hope you enjoy these, get a better understanding of Euclid and geometry, and return to visit my site as I continue to animate more of the Books of Euclid.

- Kate Rooney