Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world /

"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 centuries, generating countless new ideas and inspiring such figures as Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein. Encou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wardhaugh, Benjamin, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
Temas:
Euclid. > Elements.
Elements (Euclid)
Geometry.
Mathematics > Early works to 1800.
Géométrie.
Mathématiques > Ouvrages avant 1800.
geometry.
MATHEMATICS > Geometry > General.
Geometry
Mathematics
Early works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part one. Author. Alexandria: the geometer and the king
  • Elephantine: pot shards
  • Hypsicles: the fourteenth book
  • Theon of Alexandria: editing the Elements
  • Stephanos the scribe: Euclid in Byzantium
  • Al-Hajjaj: Euclid in Baghdad
  • Adelard: the Latin Euclid
  • Erhard Ratdolt: printing the Elements
  • Marget Seymer her hand: owning the Elements
  • Edward Bernard: Minerva in Oxford
  • Part two. Sage. Plato: the philosopher and the slave
  • Proclus Diadochus: Minerva in Athens
  • Hroswitha of Gandersheim: Wisdom and her daughters
  • Rabbi Levi ben Gershom: Euclid in Hebrew
  • Christoph Clavius: the Jesuit Elements
  • Xu Guangqi: Euclid in China
  • Blame not our author: geometry on stage
  • Baruch Spinoza: the geometrical manner
  • Anne Lister: improving the mind
  • Part three. Hero. Petechonsis: taxing and overtaxing
  • Dividing the monochord
  • Hyginus: surveying the land
  • Muhammad Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani: dividing the square
  • Lady Geometria: depicting the liberal arts
  • Piero della Francesca: seeing in perspective
  • Euclid Speidell: teaching and learning
  • Isaac Newton: mathematical principles
  • Part four. Shadow and mask. Mary Fairfax: Euclid and the straitjacket
  • François Peyrard: Manuscript 190
  • Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii: parallels
  • Maggie and Tom: the torture of the mind
  • Simson in Urdu: the Euclidean empire
  • His modern rivals
  • Thomas Little Heath: the true con amore spirit
  • Max Ernst: Euclid's mask
  • Euclidean designs
  • Lambda: curved space, dark energy.

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