Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World by Benjamin Wardhaugh

Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World

Benjamin Wardhaugh

336 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics philosophy informative medium-paced
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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 centurie...

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