[The Elements 03] • The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements
- Authors
- Euclid & Heath, Thomas Little & Heiberg, J.L.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Tags
- mathematics , reference , science , greek
- Date
- 1956-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 8.26 MB
- Lang
- en
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.