THE appearance of a school edition of “Euclid's Elements,” published under the auspices of the Cambridge University Press, provokes reflections upon the strange position so long maintained in ...

THE preface to the first edition of Sir Thomas Heath's translation of Euclid's “Elements” begins with ... a system of geometry worthy of the name, which has any material departures (we do ...

Euclid's elements and Greek mathematics after Euclid, Hindu and Arabian mathematics, European mathematics from 500 to 1600, origins of modern mathematics, analytic geometry, the history of calculus.

The ancient Greek mathematician Euclid proved in his Elements of Geometry that there are only five Platonic solids – the regular tetrahedron (four sides that are equilateral triangles), the cube (six ...