LEADER 04972nam 2200889 450 001 9910554265903321 005 20221130162246.0 010 $a0-691-21981-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780691219813 035 $a(CKB)4100000011977150 035 $a(DE-B1597)571838 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780691219813 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6548234 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6548234 035 $a(OCoLC)1252422304 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011977150 100 $a20211019d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEncounters with Euclid $ehow an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world /$fBenjamin Wardhaugh 210 1$aPrinceton, New Jersey :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (416 p.) $c34 b/w illus 311 1 $a0-691-21169-8 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPrologue --$tI: AUTHOR --$tAlexandria --$tElephantine --$tHypsicles --$tTheon of Alexandria --$tStephanos the scribe --$tAl-Hajjaj --$tAdelard --$tErhard Ratdolt --$tMarget Seymer her hand --$tEdward Bernard --$tInterlude --$tII: SAGE --$tPlato --$tProclus Diadochus --$tHroswitha of Gandersheim --$tRabbi Levi ben Gershom --$tChristoph Clavius --$tXu Guangqi --$tBlame not our author --$tBaruch Spinoza --$tAnne Lister --$tInterlude --$tIII: HERO --$tPetechonsis --$tDividing the monochord --$tHyginus --$tMuhammad Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani --$tLady Geometria --$tPiero della Francesca --$tEuclid Speidell --$tIsaac Newton --$tInterlude --$tIV: SHADOW AND MASK --$tMary Fairfax --$tFrançois Peyrard --$tNicolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii --$tMaggie and Tom --$tSimson in Urdu --$tHis modern rivals --$tThomas Little Heath --$tMax Ernst --$tEuclidean designs --$tLambda --$tEpilogue --$tAcknowledgements --$tImage Credits --$tNotes on Sources --$tSelect Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aA sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever writtenEuclid's Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads of mathematics?and of culture. Written around 300 BCE, it has traveled widely across the centuries, generating countless new ideas and inspiring such figures as Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein. Encounters with Euclid tells the story of this incomparable mathematical masterpiece, taking readers from its origins in the ancient world to its lasting influence today.In this lively and informative book, Benjamin Wardhaugh explains how Euclid?s text journeyed from antiquity to the Renaissance, introducing some of the many readers, copyists, and editors who left their mark on the Elements before handing it on. He shows how some read the book as a work of philosophy, while others viewed it as a practical guide to life. He examines the many different contexts in which Euclid's book and his geometry were put to use, from the Neoplatonic school at Athens and the workshops of Restoration London to the Jesuit mission in China and the artisans' studios of medieval Baghdad. Wardhaugh shows how the Elements inspired ideas in theology, art, and music, and how the book has acquired new relevance to the strange geometries of dark matter and curved space.Encounters with Euclid traces the life and afterlives of one of the most remarkable works of mathematics ever written, revealing its continuing role in the timeless search for order and reason in an unruly world. 606 $aGeometry 606 $aMathematics 608 $aEarly works.$2fast 610 $aAlfred North Whitehead. 610 $aBaruch Spinoza. 610 $aBodleian Library. 610 $aCopernicus. 610 $aEdna St. Vincent Millay. 610 $aEuclidean geometry. 610 $aGalileo Galilei. 610 $aGalileo. 610 $aHobbes. 610 $aJohannes Kepler. 610 $aKepler. 610 $aPlatonic solids. 610 $aProclus. 610 $aPtolemaic Egypt. 610 $aPythagorean theorem. 610 $aSpinoza. 610 $aThales' theorem. 610 $aThomas Hobbes. 610 $aVatican Library. 610 $abook history. 610 $ageometric algebra. 610 $agolden ratio. 610 $agreat books. 610 $ahistory of math. 610 $ahistory of mathematics. 610 $ahistory of the book. 610 $alemma. 610 $alogic. 610 $amathematical proofs. 610 $amusic theory. 610 $aparallel postulate. 610 $aperspective. 610 $aplane geometry. 610 $aprime numbers. 615 0$aGeometry. 615 0$aMathematics. 676 $a516.2 700 $aWardhaugh$b Benjamin$01219648 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910554265903321 996 $aEncounters with Euclid$92820078 997 $aUNINA