Euclid’s Elements, which presented the state of the art in geometry around 300 B.C., has been extraordinarily influential. This massive, 13-volume compendium set the standard for mathematical ...

IT is to be hoped that some of the scientific committees which are now dealing with the improvement of mathematical teaching, and more especially with that of the teaching of elementary geometry, will ...

THERE are many geometrical results which are not directly formulated or stated in Euclid's Elements, which are yet constantly turning up in the solution of geometrical problems, and it is very ...

Full-color facsimile reproduction of Byrne's 1847 edition, accompanied by a volume of commentary. In case. "This remarkable example of Victorian printing has been described as one of the most peculiar ...