9780486600888-0486600882-The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1: Books 1-2

The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1: Books 1-2

ISBN-13: 9780486600888
ISBN-10: 0486600882
Edition: 2
Author: Euclid, Thomas L. Heath
Publication date: 1956
Publisher: Dover Publications
Format: Paperback 464 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780486600888
ISBN-10: 0486600882
Edition: 2
Author: Euclid, Thomas L. Heath
Publication date: 1956
Publisher: Dover Publications
Format: Paperback 464 pages

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The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1: Books 1-2 (ISBN-13: 9780486600888 and ISBN-10: 0486600882), written by authors Euclid, Thomas L. Heath, was published by Dover Publications in 1956. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Geometry & Topology (Mathematics, History) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1: Books 1-2 (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Geometry & Topology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.72.

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This is the definitive edition of one of the very greatest classics of all time — the full Euclid, not an abridgement. Using the text established by Heiberg, Sir Thomas Heath encompasses almost 2,500 years of mathematical and historical study upon Euclid.
This unabridged republication of the original enlarged edition contains the complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements, plus a critical apparatus that analyzes each definition, postulate, and proposition in great detail. It covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid’s ideas; classical, medieval, Renaissance, modern commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations, and historical notes, all given with extensive quotes.
“The textbook that shall really replace Euclid has not yet been written and probably never will be.” — Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Volume 1. 151-page Introduction: life and other works of Euclid; Greek and Islamic commentators; surviving mss., scholia, translations; bases of Euclid’s thought. Books I and II of the Elements, straight lines, angles, intersection of lines, triangles, parallelograms, etc.
Volume 2. Books III-IX: Circles, tangents, segments, figures described around and within circles, rations, proportions, magnitudes, polygons, prime numbers, products, plane and solid numbers, series of rations, etc.
Volume 3. Books X to XIII: planes, solid angles, etc.; method of exhaustion in similar polygons within circles, pyramids, cones, cylinders, spheres, etc. Appendix: Books XIV, XV, sometimes ascribed to Euclid.

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