Volume 2 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical analysis of each definition, postulate, and proposition. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; classical, medieval, Renaissance and modern commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations and historical notes. Vol. 2 includes Books III-IX: Circles, relationships, rectilineal figures.
| ISBN: | 9780486600895 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 2000 |
| Author: | Euclid, Thomas Little Heath |
| Publisher: | Search Press an imprint of Dover Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 436 pages |
| Series: | Dover Books on MaTHEMA 1.4Tics |
| Genres: |
History of mathematics |