Euclid's Elements - Softcover

Euclid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 154985545X ISBN 13: 9781549855450

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

Synopsis

This version of Euclid’s Elements contains the first six books and portions of the eleventh and twelfth books. It contains all notes, an appendix, and exercises at the back of the book. Thus, the content is perfect for any student of mathematics. 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 c. 300 BC. It is a collection of definitions, postulates, propositions (theorems and constructions), and mathematical proofs of the propositions. The books cover plane and solid Euclidean geometry, elementary number theory, and incommensurable lines. Elements is the oldest extant large-scale deductive treatment of mathematics. It has proven instrumental in the development of logic and modern science, and its logical rigor was not surpassed until the 19th century. Euclid's Elements has been referred to as the most successful and influential textbook ever written. It was one of the very earliest mathematical works to be printed after the invention of the printing press and has been estimated to be second only to the Bible in the number of editions published since the first printing in 1482, with the number reaching well over one thousand. For centuries, when the quadrivium was included in the curriculum of all university students, knowledge of at least part of Euclid's Elements was required of all students. Not until the 20th century, by which time its content was universally taught through other school textbooks, did it cease to be considered something all educated people had read

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About the Author

Euclid is the most celebrated mathematician of all time. He lived in the third or fourth century B. C. E., after Plato but before Apollonius of Perga. His fame rests preeminently upon the Elements, which he wrote in thirteen books and which is said to have exercised an influence on the human mind greater than that of any other work except the Bible.

Review

I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious in the world. -- Bertrand Russell

If you want your students to really grapple with Euclid, this is the edition to choose. -- Fernando Q. Gouvea, MAA online, August 2002

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 154985545X
• ISBN 13: 9781549855450
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 300