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 ...

Designer Nicholas Rougeux created an interactive version of one of the first multicolor books, which turned Euclid’s pivotal geometric ideas into visual diagrams. “The primary goal was to pay homage ...

THE appearance of these two little books shows that practical teachers have not yet agreed upon the best method of teaching elementary geometry. That this should be so is by no means a matter for ...

"An appendix of practical geometry" has special dated title page which reads: An appendix of practical geometry. In two parts. The first contains an easy, brief, and independent demonstration of ...

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 ...

Binder's title: Playfair's Euclid. At head of title: Dean's stereotype edition. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries ...

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 ...