Godina izdanja: 2020
ISBN: 9780008299903
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Matematika
Autor: Strani

BENJAMIN WARDHAUGH

THE BOOK OF WONDERS - The Many Lives of Euclid`s Elements

Izdavač - William Collins, London

Godina - 2020

336 strana

24 cm

ISBN - 9780008299903

Povez - Tvrd

Stanje - Kao na slici, tekst bez podvlačenja



SADRŽAJ:
Prologue
I: AUTHOR
Alexandria: The geometer and the king
Elephantine: Pot shards
Hypsicles: The fourteenth book
Theon of Alexandria: Editing the Elements
Stephanos the scribe: Euclid in Byzantium
Al-Hajjaj: Euclid in Baghdad
Adelard: The Latin Euclid
Erhard Ratdolt: Printing the Elements
Marget Seymer her hand: Owning the Elements
Edward Bernard: Minerva in Oxford
Interlude

II: SAGE
Plato: The philosopher and the slave
Proclus Diadochus: Minerva in Athens
Hroswitha of Gandersheim: Wisdom and her daughters
Rabbi Levi ben Gershom: Euclid in Hebrew
Christoph Clavius: The Jesuit Elements
Xu Guangqi: Euclid in China
Blame not our author: Geometry on stage
Baruch Spinoza: The geometrical manner
Anne Lister: Improving the mind
Interlude

III: HERO
Petechonsis: Taxing and overtaxing
Dividing the monochord
Hyginus: Surveying the land
Muhammad Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani: Dividing the square
Lady Geometria: Depicting the liberal arts
Piero della Francesca: Seeing in perspective
Euclid Speidell: Teaching and learning
Isaac Newton: Mathematical principles
Interlude

IV: SHADOW AND MASK
Mary Fairfax: Euclid and the straitjacket
François Peyrard: Manuscript 190
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii: Parallels
Maggie and Tom: The torture of the mind
Simson in Urdu: The Euclidean empire
His modern rivals
Thomas Little Heath: The true con amore spirit
Max Ernst: Euclid`s mask
Euclidean designs
Lambda: Curved space, dark energy
Epilogue

Acknowledgements
Image Credits
Notes on Sources
Select Bibliography
Index


`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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