The Book of Wonders: The Many Lives of Euclid’s Elements

ISBN-13: 9780008299903 / Twarda / 2020 / 336 str.

Benjamin Wardhaugh

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Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the world's first textbook - shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.