Encounters with Euclid
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Encounters with Euclid

How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World

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eBook - ePub

Encounters with Euclid

How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World

About this book

'An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time … The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ' IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES

Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In this sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how the ancient Greek text on mathematics – often hailed as the world's first textbook – shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.

With stories of influence on every continent, and encounters with the likes of Ptolemy and Isaac Newton, Hobbes and Lewis Carroll, Wardhaugh gives dramatic life to the evolution of mathematics.

Previously published as The Book of Wonders

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Information

Publisher
William Collins
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780008299941
eBook ISBN
9780008299927
Topic
Mathematics
Subtopic
History of Education
Index
Mathematics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue
  7. I: Author
  8. II: Sage
  9. III: Hero
  10. IV: Shadow and Mask
  11. Epilogue
  12. Notes on Sources
  13. Select Bibliography
  14. Index
  15. Acknowledgements
  16. About the Author
  17. Also by Benjamin Wardhaugh
  18. About the Publisher

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