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Title	:	Euclid's Elements
Author	:	Euclid
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 499 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2002 by Green Lion Press (first published -290)
Categories	:	Science. Mathematics. Classics. Philosophy. Nonfiction

Euclid's Elements

Euclid

Paperback | Pages: 499 pages

Rating: 4.3 | 2855 Users | 67 Reviews

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Green Lion Press has prepared a new one-volume edition of T.L. Heath's translation of the thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. In keeping with Green Lion's design commitment, diagrams have been placed on every spread for convenient reference while working through the proofs; running heads on every page indicate both Euclid's book number and proposition numbers for that page; and adequate space for notes is allowed between propositions and around diagrams. The all-new index has built into it a glossary of Euclid's Greek terms.

Heath's translation has stood the test of time, and, as one done by a renowned scholar of ancient mathematics, it can be relied upon not to have inadvertantly introduced modern concepts or nomenclature.

We have excised the voluminous historical and scholarly commentary that swells the Dover edition to three volumes and impedes classroom use of the original text. The single volume is not only more convenient, but less expensive as well.

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Original Title:	Euclid's Elements
ISBN:	1888009195 (ISBN13: 9781888009194)
Edition Language:	English

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This edition of Euclids Elements presents the definitive Greek texti.e., that edited by J.L. Heiberg (18831885)accompanied by a modern English translation, as well as a Greek-English lexicon. Neither the spurious books 14 and 15, nor the extensive scholia which have been added to the Elements...more...

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This particular edition of Heath's translation is user-friendly, particularly in repeating diagrams when a proof carries over to a new leaf. The font is large and the diagrams well-produced. The introductory material is helpful. I didn't use it but it does have an index that, for terms, includes the Greek.The only supplement I needed whose need derived from the presentation was for Book XIII, Number 16, where several on-line sources have color-coding adding helpfully to the complex schematic.As

I am rating this primarily to boost its 4.64 average rating. I feel ridiculous reviewing it.This book is good, and people with cerebral cortexes know that.For reference, one person who gave it one star gave Allan Moore's "Watchmen" "graphic novel" (read: comic book) 4 stars.. . . If this book is not perfection, I am not sure what perfection entails.The Elements is one of the ten most important, if not best, books ever written. There is no better course in deductive logic, much less geometry.

The original bible of geometry! Plato had an inscription above the entrance to his Academy: "Let no man enter here who is ignorant of geometry." From Plato's time to the 20th century, Euclid's "Elements" was the gold-standard for learning this most basic of the mathematical disciplines. When you read it, you will understand why. Every proof and every construction is worked out meticulously, step-by-step, such that there is zero doubt about the final result. Required reading for all truly

Simply beautiful! Heaths unabridged translation is made even more beautiful because of the amount of mathematics in the notes and commentaries. Geometry is a sea of forgotten & lost theorems and problems, and a truly amazing experience of rigorous mathematics. This book is definitely for the lover of maths.