Description
| Product ID: | 9780008299941 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Encounters with Euclid |
| Subtitle: | How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World |
| Authors: | Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Ancient history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, History, History, History of ideas, Philosophy of mathematics, Euclidean geometry, History of mathematics, History of science, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of ideas, Philosophy of mathematics, Euclidean geometry, History of mathematics, History of science, Italy, Ancient Greece, BCE to c 500 CE, Modern period, c 1500 onwards |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating ‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time … The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ’ IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES ‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time … The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ’ IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURESEuclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In this sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how the 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.With stories of influence on every continent, and encounters with the likes of Ptolemy and Isaac Newton, Hobbes and Lewis Carroll, Wardhaugh gives dramatic life to the evolution of mathematics.Previously published as The Book of Wonders |
| Imprint Name: | William Collins |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-08-05 |
