Book of Wonders – The Many Lives of Euclid’s Elements

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ISBN: 9780008299910
Title: Book of Wonders – The Many Lives of Euclid’s Elements
Author: WARDHAUGH BENJAMIN

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.