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Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World

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By (author): Benjamin Wardhaugh

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 FIGURES

Euclids 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 worlds 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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Product Details
  • Weight: 300g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Aug 2021
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008299941

About Benjamin Wardhaugh

Benjamin Wardhaugh is a Fifty-pound Fellow at All Souls College Oxford. His research focuses on the history of numeracy and mathematics and the ways mathematics influences and is a part of cultures. His work focuses mainly on topics in early modern Britain including mathematical music theory in that period. He has taught in both the Mathematical Institute and the History Faculty. He is the author of Gunpowder and Geometry and Encounters with Euclid.

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