Euclid
Paperback | Pages: 499 pages Rating: 4.3 | 2855 Users | 67 Reviews
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| Title | : | Euclid's Elements |
| Author | : | Euclid |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 499 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2002 by Green Lion Press (first published -290) |
| Categories | : | Science. Mathematics. Classics. Philosophy. Nonfiction |
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Green Lion Press has prepared a new one-volume edition of T.L. Heath's translation of the thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. In keeping with Green Lion's design commitment, diagrams have been placed on every spread for convenient reference while working through the proofs; running heads on every page indicate both Euclid's book number and proposition numbers for that page; and adequate space for notes is allowed between propositions and around diagrams. The all-new index has built into it a glossary of Euclid's Greek terms. Heath's translation has stood the test of time, and, as one done by a renowned scholar of ancient mathematics, it can be relied upon not to have inadvertantly introduced modern concepts or nomenclature. We have excised the voluminous historical and scholarly commentary that swells the Dover edition to three volumes and impedes classroom use of the original text. The single volume is not only more convenient, but less expensive as well.Present Books In Pursuance Of Euclid's Elements
| Original Title: | Euclid's Elements |
| ISBN: | 1888009195 (ISBN13: 9781888009194) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Out Of Books Euclid's Elements
Ratings: 4.3 From 2855 Users | 67 ReviewsColumn Out Of Books Euclid's Elements
I am have never been a math lover, appreciator, or even comprehender. But Euclid blew my fuckin mind. I can see a narrative thread and great romance in this ridiculously old goofily-worded text, and Im forever grateful to Harold Stone for, for the first time in my life, enabling me to leave a math class feeling a sense of wonder and delight in my confoundment. Seriously. Never in my wildest dreams. Long live Shimer College.Simply beautiful! Heaths unabridged translation is made even more beautiful because of the amount of mathematics in the notes and commentaries. Geometry is a sea of forgotten & lost theorems and problems, and a truly amazing experience of rigorous mathematics. This book is definitely for the lover of maths.
All great minds have found fascination in the books of Euclid.
Okay, so Euclid is hugely important because he more or less originated the idea of a closed, axiomatic system of thought, the sort of thing that would go on to influence people like Vico and Spinoza, not to mention pretty much every mathematician who ever lived. Reading the Elements is about as exciting as reading a cookbook. You start with these parts, mix them together in this way, and get this whole. This way of thinking is probably too heavily ingrained into our mindsets after all these
Update: Again, I find myself starting with the disclaimer that I did not actually read this in its entirety. And I never meant to. My goal was to work through the first four books and that I have done. Can I honestly say that I enjoyed it and am glad I did it. Yes, I really can. Not sure that it makes me a better or wiser person but it makes me SOUND like a better and wiser person when I get to say things like, "Oh, yes. It is like that time I worked through Book 3 of Euclid's 'Elements'..."
This particular edition of Heath's translation is user-friendly, particularly in repeating diagrams when a proof carries over to a new leaf. The font is large and the diagrams well-produced. The introductory material is helpful. I didn't use it but it does have an index that, for terms, includes the Greek.The only supplement I needed whose need derived from the presentation was for Book XIII, Number 16, where several on-line sources have color-coding adding helpfully to the complex schematic.As
"Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare." --Edna St. Vincent MillayThis is a statement I believe more strongly as I experience more of Euclid's propositions for myself. Before encountering Euclid, I had never considered mathematics to be something beautiful. Now, however, the sheer logical clarity with which Euclid attempts to grapple with the principles of the world around him actually brings tears to my eyes. From how he uses the idea of equality as a foundation for everything else to how he
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