Paperback, 464 pages
English language
Published June 1, 1956 by Dover Publications.
The Thirteen Books of the Elements
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Volume 2 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical analysis of each definition, postulate, and proposition. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; classical, medieval, Renaissance and modern commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations and historical notes. Vol. 2 includes Books III-IX: Circles, relationships, rectilineal figures.
Subjects
- Other prose: classical, early & medieval
- Philosophy of science
- Mathematics
- Arithmetic
- Geometry - General
- Mathematics / General