The Elements of Euclid - The First Six Books (Illustrated Edition)

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Mathematics, Arithmetic, Geometry

• Author: John Casey
• ISBN: 1230002253244
• Publisher: RSM
• Publication: April 4, 2018
• Language: English

Euclid’s Elements form one of the most beautiful and influential works of science in the history of humankind. Its beauty lies in its logical development of geometry and other branches of mathematics. It has influenced all branches of science but none so much as mathematics and the exact sciences. 

The book It is a collection of definitions, postulates, propositions (theorems and constructions), and mathematical proofs of the propositions. 

Euclid's Elements has been referred to as the most successful and influential textbook ever written. It was one of the very earliest mathematical works to be printed after the invention of the printing press and has been estimated to be second only to the Bible in the number of editions published since the first printing.