Byrne’s Euclid
Nicholas Rougeux,
Dec 24, 2018
I cited with approval recently the statement that mathematics is something that we as a society have created rather than discovered. To be sure, the structure of mathematics unfolds like origami, but it's still more like a language or art than anything else. That to me is the story that's told by Byrne's Euclid. The Euclidean Elements of course were the standard text for the teaching of geometry for some 2,000 years in the western world. This volume is a "reproduction of Oliver Byrne's celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux."
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