Preliminary Booksellers Text: Do Not Use This book takes Euclid's "Elements" ad the starting point for a study of geometry from a modern mathematical perspective. To begin, the reader will become familiar with the content of Euclid's work, at least those parts which deal with geometry. At a second level, the book studies the logical structure of Euclid's presentation. Euclid's "Elements" has been regarded for more than two thousand years as the prime example of the axiomatic method. At the third level of reading, involving rather broader investigaions than the first two levels mentioned above, the author considers various mathematical questions and subsequent developments which arise naturally from Euclid's

Author: Robin Hartshorne
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Springer
Published: 12/15/2010
Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Pages: 528
Weight: 2lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.70w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781441931450
2000 Edition