Encounters with Euclid : How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World
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Paperback / softback
ISBN-10
0008299943
ISBN-13
9780008299941
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint
William Collins
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 5th, 2021
Print length
416 Pages
Weight
298 grams
Dimensions
13.00 x 19.90 x 2.90 cms
Product Classification:
ItalyAncient GreeceBCE period – Protohistoryc 1500 onwards to present dayAncient history: to c 500 CEEarly modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900History of ideasHistory of ideasHistoryAncient historyPhilosophy of mathematicsEuclidean geometryHistory of mathematicsHistory of science
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‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time … The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ’ IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES
‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time … The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ’ IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURESEuclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In this sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how the ancient Greek text on mathematics – often hailed as the world’s first textbook – shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.With stories of influence on every continent, and encounters with the likes of Ptolemy and Isaac Newton, Hobbes and Lewis Carroll, Wardhaugh gives dramatic life to the evolution of mathematics.Previously published as The Book of Wonders
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