EUCLID. The Thirteen Books of The Elements: Volume 3: Books 10 to 13 - Softcover

Euclid, Euclid

 
9780486600901: EUCLID. The Thirteen Books of The Elements: Volume 3: Books 10 to 13

Synopsis

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.

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