The Elements, books I-XIII

The Elements, books I-XIII

por Euclid
4/5
(29 votos)
Primera publicación
2006
Editores
Barnes & Noble
Idioma
English

In Plato's Symposium, Socrates recounts Diotima's words to him: "This, my dear Socrates," said the stranger of Mantineia, "is that life above all others which man should live, in the contemplation of beauty absolute," and, to me, reading Euclid is as close as one can get to experiencing what Diotima meant. Euclid starts with a few simple definitions and axioms, and then elegantly builds a whole system of mathematics.

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