Euclid’s Elements, which presented the state of the art in geometry around 300 B.C., has been extraordinarily influential. This massive, 13-volume compendium set the standard for mathematical ...

IT is to be hoped that some of the scientific committees which are now dealing with the improvement of mathematical teaching, and more especially with that of the teaching of elementary geometry, will ...

THERE are many geometrical results which are not directly formulated or stated in Euclid's Elements, which are yet constantly turning up in the solution of geometrical problems, and it is very ...

Full-color facsimile reproduction of Byrne's 1847 edition, accompanied by a volume of commentary. In case. "This remarkable example of Victorian printing has been described as one of the most peculiar ...

Euclid’s Elements was the first major work to organise mathematics as an axiomatic system. Starting from a set of clearly stated and self-evident truths called axioms, a large collection of theorems ...

In 1847, Oliver Byrne, “surveyor of Her Majesty’s settlements in the Falkland Islands and author of numerous mathematical works,” wrote and designed an illustrated book so far ahead of its time that, ...