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The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
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Euclid's Elements; Mathematics, Greek
”The book is all, and more than all, it professes to be.…The propositions suggested are such as
will be found to have most important applications, and the methods of proof are both simple and
elegant. We know no book which, within so moderate a compass, puts the student in possession of
such valuable results.
”The exercises left for solution are such as will repay patient study, and those whose solution are
given in the book itself will suggest the methods by which the others are to be demonstrated. We
recommend everyone who wants good exercises in Geometry to get the book, and study it for
themselves.”
From the Educational Times.
”The editor has been very happy in some of the changes he has made. The combination of the
general and particular enunciations of each proposition into one is good; and the shortening of the
proofs, by omitting the repetitions so common in Euclid, is another improvement. The use of the
contra-positive of a proved theorem is introduced with advantage, in place of the reductio ad
absurdum; while the alternative (or, in some cases, substituted) proofs are numerous, many of them
being not only elegant but eminently suggestive. The notes at the end of the book are of great
interest, and much of the matter is not easily accessible. The collection of exercises, ‘of which there
are nearly eight hundred,’ is another feature which will commend the book to teachers. To sum up,
we think that this work ought to be read by every teacher of Geometry; and we make bold to say
that no one can study it without gaining valuable information, and still more valuable
suggestions.”
From the Journal of Education, Sept. 1, 1883.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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