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Euclid's Elements (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 3,400 ratings — published -290
The Philosophy of Cosmic Spirituality (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.83 — 41 ratings — published 2014
Il-Filosofija tal-Ispiritwalita Kozmika (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.88 — 8 ratings — published 2013
Concurrent Euclid, the Unix* System, and Tunis (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 1983
“Euclid's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing with the progress of man from a worse to a better state. The encouragement; for it contained a body of knowledge that was really known and could be relied on, and that moreover was growing in extent and application. For even at the time this book was written—shortly after the foundation of the Alexandrian Museum—Mathematics was no longer the merely ideal science of the Platonic school, but had started on her career of conquest over the whole world of Phenomena. The guide; for the aim of every scientific student of every subject was to bring his knowledge of that subject into a form as perfect as that which geometry had attained. Far up on the great mountain of Truth, which all the sciences hope to scale, the foremost of that sacred sisterhood was seen, beckoning for the rest to follow her.”
― Lectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford, F.R.S.
― Lectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford, F.R.S.
“These estimates may well be enhanced by one from F. Klein (1849-1925), the leading German mathematician of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. 'Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.' ... If mathematics is indeed the science of self-evident things, mathematicians are a phenomenally stupid lot to waste the tons of good paper they do in proving the fact. Mathematics is abstract and it is hard, and any assertion that it is simple is true only in a severely technical sense—that of the modern postulational method which, as a matter of fact, was exploited by Euclid. The assumptions from which mathematics starts are simple; the rest is not.”
― Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science
― Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science
