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Euclid Books
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Euclid's Elements (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as euclid)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,415 ratings — published -290
The Philosophy of Cosmic Spirituality (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as euclid)
avg rating 4.83 — 41 ratings — published 2014
Il-Filosofija tal-Ispiritwalita Kozmika (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as euclid)
avg rating 4.88 — 8 ratings — published 2013
Concurrent Euclid, the Unix* System, and Tunis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as euclid)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 1983
“... I left Caen, where I was living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the School of Mines. The incidents of the travel made me forget my mathematical work. Having reached Coutances, we entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At the moment when I put my foot on the step, the idea came to me, without anything in my former thoughts seeming to have paved the way for it, that the transformations I had used to define the Fuchsian functions were identical with those of non-Euclidean geometry. I did not verify the idea; I should not have had time, as upon taking my seat in the omnibus, I went on with a conversation already commenced, but I felt a perfect certainty. On my return to Caen, for convenience sake, I verified the result at my leisure.”
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“As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a useful course is to begin with arithmetic, and then not Euclid but algebra. Next, not Euclid, but practical geometry, solid as well as plane; not demonstration, but to make acquaintance. Then not Euclid, but elementary vectors, conjoined with algebra, and applied to geometry. Addition first; then the scalar product. Elementary calculus should go on simultaneously, and come into vector algebraic geometry after a bit. Euclid might be an extra course for learned men, like Homer...”
― Electromagnetic Theory
― Electromagnetic Theory
