Euclid’s Elements, which presented the state of the art in geometry around 300 B.C., has been extraordinarily influential. This massive, 13-volume compendium set the standard for mathematical ...

Designer Nicholas Rougeux created an interactive version of one of the first multicolor books, which turned Euclid’s pivotal geometric ideas into visual diagrams.

Euclid wrote his famous textbook of geometry, the “Elements,” around 300 B.C. It is a masterpiece of thought and exposition. The “Elements” deduces abundant, ...

THE preface to the first edition of Sir Thomas Heath's translation of Euclid's “Elements” begins with the following quotation from De Morgan: “There never has been, and until we see it we ...

Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Books I. and II. Edited for the use of Schools, by Charles Smith Sophie Bryant Pp. viii + 160. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1897.) ...

In his new book, Jordan Ellenberg ... Geometry gives us a world unclad. “Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare,” wrote Edna St. Vincent Millay. That feeling of mystical revelation — of a ...