The definitive edition of one of the very greatest classics of all time--the full Euclid, encompassing almost 2500 years of mathematical and historical study.
Appendix: Books XIV, XV, sometimes ascribed to Euclid..
Books X to XIII: planes, solid angles, etc.; method of exhaustion in similar polygons within circles, pyramids, cones, cylinders, spheres, etc.
Volume 3.
Books III-IX: Circles, tangents, segments, figures described around and within circles, rations, proportions, magnitudes, polygons, prime numbers, products, plane and solid numbers, series of rations, etc.
Volume 2.
Books I and II of the Elements , straight lines, angles, intersection of lines, triangles, parallelograms, etc. 151-page Introduction: life and other works of Euclid
Greek and Islamic commentators; surviving mss., scholia, translations; bases of Euclid\'s thought.
Volume 1. -- Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The textbook that shall really replace Euclid has not yet been written and probably never will be.
It covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid\'s ideas; classical, medieval, Renaissance, modern commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations, and historical notes, all given with extensive quotes.
This unabridged republication of the original enlarged edition contains the complete English text of all 13 Books of the Elements, plus a critical apparatus that analyzes each definition, postulate, and proposition in great detail.
Using the text established by Heiberg, Sir Thomas Heath encompasses almost 2,500 years of mathematical and historical study upon Euclid.
This is the definitive edition of one of the very greatest classics of all time -- the full Euclid, not an abridgement.
This unabridged republication of the original enlarged edition contains the complete English text of all 13 Books of the ELEMENTS, plus analyses of each definition, postulate, and proposition.
The definitive edition of one of the very greatest classics of all time--the full Euclid, encompassing almost 2500 years of mathematical and historical study
