
The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
Euclid(Author)
Ancient Wisdom Publications (Publisher)
Published on 28. February 2024
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-963956-18-4 (ISBN)
Description
Very little is known of Euclid's life, and most information comes from the scholars Proclus and Pappus of Alexandria many centuries later. Medieval Islamic mathematicians invented a fanciful biography, and medieval Byzantine and early Renaissance scholars mistook him for the earlier philosopher Euclid of Megara. It is now generally accepted that he spent his career in Alexandria and lived around 300 BC, after Plato's students and before Archimedes. There is some speculation that Euclid studied at the Platonic Academy and later taught at the Musaeum; he is regarded as bridging the earlier Platonic tradition in Athens with the later tradition of Alexandria.
In the Elements, Euclid deduced the theorems from a small set of axioms. He also wrote works on perspective, conic sections, spherical geometry, number theory, and mathematical rigour. In addition to the Elements, Euclid wrote a central early text in the optics field, Optics, and lesser-known works including Data and Phaenomena. Euclid's authorship of two other texts-On Divisions of Figures, Catoptrics-has been questioned. He is thought to have written many now lost works.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 282 mm
Width: 218 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
812 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-963956-18-4 (9781963956184)
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