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Dover Books on Mathematics Ser.: Thirteen Books of the Elements Vol. 2 by Euclid (1956, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100486600890

ISBN-139780486600895

eBay Product ID (ePID)376413

Product Key Features

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameThirteen Books of the Elements Vol. 2

Publication Year1956

SubjectHistory & Philosophy, Geometry / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMathematics

AuthorEuclid

SeriesDover Books on Mathematics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight19.1 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Edition Number2

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

Series Volume Number2

Commentaries byHeath, Thomas Little

Volume NumberVol. 2, Bks. III-IX

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal513

Table Of ContentBOOK III. DEFINITIONS PROPOSITIONS BOOK IV. DEFINITIONS PROPOSITIONS BOOK V. INTRODUCTORY NOTE DEFINITIONS PROPOSITIONS BOOK VI. INTRODUCTORY NOTE DEFINITIONS PROPOSITIONS BOOK VII. DEFINITIONS PROPOSITIONS BOOK VIII. BOOK IX. GREEK INDEX TO VOL. II. ENGLISH INDEX TO VOL. II.

SynopsisVolume 2 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. 2 includes Books 3-9: Circles, relationships, rectilineal figures., 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 analyzes 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.

LC Classification NumberQA31