Volume 3 of three-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical apparatus analyzing each definition, postulate, and proposition in great detail. 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. 3 includes Books X-XIII: Commensurable magnitudes, solids, cones, cylinders.
ISBN: | 9780486600901 |
Publication date: | 1st February 2000 |
Author: | Euclid, Thomas Little Heath |
Publisher: | Dover Publications an imprint of Dover Publications Inc |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 546 pages |
Series: | Dover Books on MaTHEMA 1.4Tics |
Genres: |
History of mathematics |