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The Book of Wonders - The Many Lives of Euclid's Elements (Hardcover)
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The Book of Wonders - The Many Lives of Euclid's Elements (Hardcover)
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Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In
a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek
text on mathematics - often hailed as the world's first textbook -
shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as
well as science and maths. Thirteen volumes of mathematical
definitions, propositions and proofs. Writing in 300 BC, Euclid
could not have known his logic would go unsurpassed until the
nineteenth century, or that his writings were laying down the very
foundations of human knowledge. Wardhaugh blasts the dust from
Euclid's legacy to offer not only a vibrant history of mathematics,
told through people and invention, but also a broader story of
culture. Telling stories from every continent, ranging between
Ptolemy and Isaac Newton, Hobbes and Lewis Carrol, this is a
history that dives from Ancient Greece to medieval Byzantium, early
modern China, Renaissance Italy, the age of European empires, and
our world today. How has geometry sat at the beating heart of
sculpture, literature, music and thought? How can one unknowable
figure of antiquity live through two millennia?
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