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... Euclid's Elements , but rearrangements and simplifications are introduced without lessening the rigor of the ancient methods of treatment . In succes- sive editions Legendre tried to prove the fifth postulate of Euclid , and every ...
... Euclid's Elements , but rearrangements and simplifications are introduced without lessening the rigor of the ancient methods of treatment . In succes- sive editions Legendre tried to prove the fifth postulate of Euclid , and every ...
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... Euclid's post . 5 , because Saccheri was the first to contemplate the possibility of hypotheses other than that of Euclid , and to work out a number of consequences of those hypotheses . See Heath , The Thirteen Books of Euclid's ...
... Euclid's post . 5 , because Saccheri was the first to contemplate the possibility of hypotheses other than that of Euclid , and to work out a number of consequences of those hypotheses . See Heath , The Thirteen Books of Euclid's ...
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... Euclid . This work deals with the geometry of the sphere in its application to astronomy as Euclid's work on the phenomena also did . The Sphaerica of Theodosius ( -50 ) was a valuable compilation of many propositions about great and ...
... Euclid . This work deals with the geometry of the sphere in its application to astronomy as Euclid's work on the phenomena also did . The Sphaerica of Theodosius ( -50 ) was a valuable compilation of many propositions about great and ...
Contents
History of Mathematics after the Sixteenth Century 229 | 29 |
Literature List and Notes | 51 |
Index of Names | 71 |
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