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This is the definitive edition of one of the very greatest classics of all time - the full Euclid, not an abridgement. Using the text established by Heiberg, Sir Thomas Heath encompasses almost 2,500 years of mathematical and historical study upon Euclid.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 analyses each definition, postulate, and proposition in great detail. 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. The textbook that shall really replace Euclid has not yet been written and probably never will be. - Encyclopaedia Britannica.Volume 1. 151-page Introduction: life and other works of Euclid; Greek and Islamic commentators; surviving mss., scholia, translations; bases of Euclid's thought. Books I and II of the Elements, straight lines, angles, intersection of lines, triangles, parallelograms, etc.Volume 2. 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 3. Books X to XIII: planes, solid angles, etc.; method of exhaustion in similar polygons within circles, pyramids, cones, cylinders, spheres, etc. Appendix: Books XIV, XV, sometimes ascribed to Euclid.Product Identifiers
PublisherDover Publications Inc.
ISBN-139780486600888
eBay Product ID (ePID)96835900
Product Key Features
Publication Year2000
SubjectMathematics
Number of Pages443 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThe Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1
TypeTextbook
AuthorEuclid
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height202 mm
Item Width20 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorEuclid
Series TitleDover Books on Mathematics