"Volume 1 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical analysis of each definition, postulate, and proposition. Vol. 1 includes Introduction, Books I and II: Triangles, rectangles.
This is the definitive edition of one of the very greatest classics of all time - the full Euclid, not an abridgement. Using the text established by Heiberg, Sir Thomas Heath encompasses almost 2,500 years of mathematical and historical study upon Euclid.
This unabridged republication of the original enlarged edition contains the complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements, plus a critical apparatus that analyses each definition, postulate, and proposition in great detail. It covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; classical, medieval, Renaissance, modern commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations, and historical notes, all given with extensive quotes.""""The textbook that shall really replace Euclid has not yet been written and probably never will be."""" - Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Volume 1. 151-page Introduction: life and other works of Euclid; Greek and Islamic commentators; surviving mss., scholia, translations; bases of Euclid's thought. Books I and II of the Elements, straight lines, angles, intersection of lines, triangles, parallelograms, etc.
Volume 2. Books III-IX: Circles, tangents, segments, figures described around and within circles, rations, proportions, magnitudes, polygons, prime numbers, products, plane and solid numbers, series of rations, etc.
Volume 3. Books X to XIII: planes, solid angles, etc.; method of exhaustion in similar polygons within circles, pyramids, cones, cylinders, spheres, etc. Appendix: Books XIV, XV, sometimes ascribed to Euclid."
By:
Euclid Euclid
Translated by:
Sir Thomas L. Heath
Volume editor:
Sir Thomas L. Heath
Imprint: Dover
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Height: 215mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 545g
ISBN: 9780486600888
ISBN 10: 0486600882
Series: Dover Books on Mathema 1.4tics
Pages: 1414
Publication Date: 01 June 1956
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified
"VOLUME I. INTRODUCTION. FACSIMILE OF A PAGE OF THE BODLEIAN MS. OF THE ELEMENTS. Frontispiece I. EUCLID AND THE TRADITIONS ABOUT HIM II. EUCLID'S OTHER WORKS III. GREEK COMMENTATORS OTHER THAN PROCLUS IV. PROCLUS AND HIS SOURCES V. THE TEXT VI. THE SCHOLIA VII. EUCLID IN ARABIA VIII. PRINCIPAL TRANSLATIONS AND EDITIONS IX. 1. ON THE NATURE OF ELEMENTS 2. ELEMENTS ANTERIOR TO EUCLID'S 3. ""FIRST PRINCIPLES: DEFINITIONS, POSTULATES AND AXIOMS"" 4. THEOREMS AND PROBLEMS 5. THE FORMAL DIVISIONS OF A PROPOSITION 6. OTHER TECHNICAL TERMS 7. THE DEFINITIONS THE ELEMENTS. ""BOOK I. DEFINITIONS, POSTULATES, COMMON NOTIONS"" NOTES ON DEFINITIONS ETC PROPOSITIONS BOOK II. DEFINITIONS NOTE ON GEOMETRICAL ALGEBRA PROPOSITIONS EXCURSUS I. PYTHAGORAS AND THE PYTHAGOREANS EXCURSUS II. POPULAR NAMES FOR EUCLIDEAN PROPOSITIONS GREEK INDEX TO VOL. I. ENGLISH INDEX TO VOL. 1."
