THE appearance of a school edition of “Euclid's Elements,” published under the auspices of the Cambridge University Press, provokes reflections upon the strange position so long maintained in this ...

Euclid’s Elements, which presented the state of the art in geometry around 300 B.C., has been extraordinarily influential. This massive, 13-volume compendium set the standard for mathematical ...

In this brief, accessible foray, popular math/science writer Berlinski (Newton’s Gift) breathes life into an ancient mathematician and the world of axioms and theorems he created—a geometric world ...

In 1847, an eccentric British mathematician named Oliver Byrne released a new edition of Euclid’s famous mathematical treatise, The Elements of Geometry. Byrne added a rather longwinded but ultimately ...

Full-color facsimile reproduction of Byrne's 1847 edition, accompanied by a volume of commentary. In case. "This remarkable example of Victorian printing has been described as one of the most peculiar ...

Euclid’s Elements was the first major work to organise mathematics as an axiomatic system. Starting from a set of clearly stated and self-evident truths called axioms, a large collection of theorems ...

There's a simple way to learn geometry over the summer. It is easy and fun. Imagine Euclidean geometry: the video game. If your experience in high school geometry was anything like mine, it probably ...

IF Euclid is to continue as the foundation of geometrical teaching in our schools, this work must b very warmly welcomed. The exact order of Euclid is followed, but (as the editors inform us) with no ...

Signs of men -- An abstraction from the gabble -- Common beliefs -- Darker by definition -- The axioms -- The greater Euclid -- Visible and invisible proof -- The devil's offer -- The Euclidean Joint ...