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Highlights
- This is a book for all lovers of mathematics with a solid background in high school geometry, from teachers and students to university professors.
- Author(s): Benno Artmann
- 349 Pages
- Mathematics, History & Philosophy
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About the Book
Written by an authority on the history of Greek mathematics, as well as outstanding geometer, this book on the beginnings of mathematics is clearly written, interesting, and insightful--giving a fresh look at the subject. With the current interest in Euclid, this accessible presentation should interest a wide audience. 116 illus.Book Synopsis
This is a book for all lovers of mathematics with a solid background in high school geometry, from teachers and students to university professors. For each of Euclid's thirteen Books, the author has given a general description of the contents and structure of the Book, plus one or two sample proofs.Review Quotes
B. Artmann
Euclid - The Creation of Mathematics
"The author invites the 'lover of mathematics' to have a peek, via a gentle introduction and presentation of Euclid's Elements, with detours to previous Greek geometers, whose work has been incorporated in the Elements. The contents of the Elements are presented book by book . . . with full statements of the definitions, axioms, propositions, and proofs involved. There are . . . notes to subsequent development of Euclidean themes . . . justifications of steps of proof and of the sequence in which results appear . . . An original and pleasing feature of the book consists in the references to Greek architecture, which emphasize the pervasiveness of the concern for proportion in Greek culture, as well as the references to archaeological finds of dodecahedra- and icosahedra-shaped objects."--AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY