The 99 Dreams of Euclid's Wife by Cathryn MillerAlthough Euclid is famed as the author of four mathematical treatises Elements, Optics, Data, Phaenomena and is often referred to as the father of Geometry, almost nothing is known about him as a person. He is believed to be of Greek descent and to have lived in Alexandria circa 300 BCE. If Euclid was a real individual (and not a group of scholars), it is completely within the realm of possibility that he was married. I think of him sitting with his