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The Book of Wonders

- The Many Lives of Euclid’s Elements
Af: Benjamin Wardhaugh Engelsk Hardback

The Book of Wonders

- The Many Lives of Euclid’s Elements
Af: Benjamin Wardhaugh Engelsk Hardback
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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.Thirteen volumes of mathematical definitions, propositions and proofs. Writing in 300 BC, Euclid could not have known his logic would go unsurpassed until the nineteenth century, or that his writings were laying down the very foundations of human knowledge.Wardhaugh blasts the dust from Euclid’s legacy to offer not only a vibrant history of mathematics, told through people and invention, but also a broader story of culture. Telling stories from every continent, ranging between Ptolemy and Isaac Newton, Hobbes and Lewis Carrol, this is a history that dives from Ancient Greece to medieval Byzantium, early modern China, Renaissance Italy, the age of European empires, and our world today.How has geometry sat at the beating heart of sculpture, literature, music and thought? How can one unknowable figure of antiquity live through two millennia?
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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.Thirteen volumes of mathematical definitions, propositions and proofs. Writing in 300 BC, Euclid could not have known his logic would go unsurpassed until the nineteenth century, or that his writings were laying down the very foundations of human knowledge.Wardhaugh blasts the dust from Euclid’s legacy to offer not only a vibrant history of mathematics, told through people and invention, but also a broader story of culture. Telling stories from every continent, ranging between Ptolemy and Isaac Newton, Hobbes and Lewis Carrol, this is a history that dives from Ancient Greece to medieval Byzantium, early modern China, Renaissance Italy, the age of European empires, and our world today.How has geometry sat at the beating heart of sculpture, literature, music and thought? How can one unknowable figure of antiquity live through two millennia?
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9780008299903
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0008299900
Kategori: Ancient Greece
Udg. Dato: 20 aug 2020
Længde: 40mm
Bredde: 242mm
Højde: 163mm
Forlag: HarperCollins Publishers
Oplagsdato: 20 aug 2020
Forfatter(e): Benjamin Wardhaugh
Forfatter(e) Benjamin Wardhaugh

Kategori Ancient Greece

ISBN-13 9780008299903

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 336

Udgave

Længde 40mm

Bredde 242mm

Højde 163mm

Udg. Dato 20 aug 2020

Oplagsdato 20 aug 2020

Forlag HarperCollins Publishers

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