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Clay Mathematics Institute places a public Euclid as a digital scholarly object

Clay’s public Elements is a completed digital instrument independent of Perseus. A second public Euclid is not an autograph. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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Clay’s public Elements is a completed digital instrument independent of Perseus. The dated carrier is that URL. Access to diagrams is the path.

Context

A second public Euclid is not an autograph.

Pythagoras is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Clay Euclid is a scholarly access path, not a 570 BCE slate.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Pythagoras

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.19 · verified

    Named sage as heading of later school reports. Iamblichus, Euclid’s editors, and later math teachers publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Clay Mathematics Institute — Euclid’s ElementsClay Mathematics Institute · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Pythagorean theoremEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorPythagoras
  2. contributed toFactClay Mathematics Institute places a public Euclid as a digital scholarly object
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Clay Mathematics Institute places a public Euclid as a digital scholarly object. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/py-clay-euclid-digital

https://factrail.ai/facts/py-clay-euclid-digital

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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