The Geometry of Euclid’s Elements

Christopher Baltus ()
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Christopher Baltus: State University of New York at Oswego, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 3 in Collineations and Conic Sections, 2020, pp 31-43 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract To start at the beginning, as with many stories in mathematics, we go back to ancient Greece, and the “Greek miracle.” There were several Greek miracles, modern features that appeared as from nowhere. They may be related. There was the appearance of democracy, in Athens, around 500 BC. Around the same time philosophy emerged, reasoning by evidence and logical deduction about the great questions: what is our world made of, how and why does it change, how should we live? And mathematics that was formal and deductive.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46287-1_3

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