Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691211695ISBN-10:691211698UPC:9780691211695Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:Geometry, History & PhilosophySize:9.29 x 6.06 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SCHCNM99BQ
A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever written
Euclid's Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads of mathematics--and of culture. Written around 300 BCE, it has traveled widely across the centuries, generating countless new ideas and inspiring such figures as Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein. Encounters with...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691211695ISBN-10:691211698UPC:9780691211695Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:Geometry, History & PhilosophySize:9.29 x 6.06 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SCHCNM99BQ
Benjamin Wardhaugh is a historian of mathematics. He is the author of Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician, and Scientific Rebel and How to Read Historical Mathematics (Princeton) and the editor of A Wealth of Numbers: An Anthology of 500 Years of Popular Mathematics Writing (Princeton).
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