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Benjamin Wardhaugh
Encounters with Euclid [EPUB ebook]
How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World

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‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time … The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ‘ IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURESEuclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In this sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how the 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.With stories of influence on every continent, and encounters with the likes of Ptolemy and Isaac Newton, Hobbes and Lewis Carroll, Wardhaugh gives dramatic life to the evolution of mathematics.Previously published as The Book of Wonders

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● ISBN 9780008299927 ● Casa editrice HarperCollins Publishers ● Pubblicato 2020 ● Scaricabile 3 volte ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7552413 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM

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