The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1

Author: Euclid

Literary essays

Published on 1 February 2000 by Dover Publications Inc. in the United States as part of 'the Dover Books on MaTHEMA 1.4tics' series.

Paperback | 464 pages
203 x 138 x 23mm | 548g

Volume 1 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical apparatus analyzing each definition, postulate, and proposition. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations, and historical notes. Vol. 1 includes Introduction, Books I and II of Elements, lines, angles, intersections, etc.