Proclus de Lycie: Les Commentaire sur le Premier Livre des Éléments d'Euclide (Commentaries on the first book of Euclid's "Elements")
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- Bruges: Desclée de Brouwer et Cie, 1948
Bruges: Desclée de Brouwer et Cie, 1948. French-language edition. Paperback. Very Good. 372pp. Quarto [28 cm] Gray wraps printed in black and red. With prominent darkening to the spine and large areas of the wraps. Translated for the first time from Greek into French with an introduction and notes by Paul ver Eecke. Collection de Travaux de l'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences No. 1.
Euclid (flourished c. 300 bce, Alexandria, Egypt) was the foremost mathematician of Greco-Roman antiquity. Not much is known about his life. He is most known for his treatise on geometry, the "Elements."
"Euclid understood that building a logical and rigorous geometry (and mathematics) depends on the foundation—a foundation that Euclid began in Book I with 23 definitions (such as 'a point is that which has no part' and 'a line is a length without breadth'), five unproved assumptions that Euclid called postulates (now known as axioms), and five further unproved assumptions that he called common notions... Book I then proves elementary theorems about triangles and parallelograms and ends with the Pythagorean theorem." - Britannica.com.
Euclid (flourished c. 300 bce, Alexandria, Egypt) was the foremost mathematician of Greco-Roman antiquity. Not much is known about his life. He is most known for his treatise on geometry, the "Elements."
"Euclid understood that building a logical and rigorous geometry (and mathematics) depends on the foundation—a foundation that Euclid began in Book I with 23 definitions (such as 'a point is that which has no part' and 'a line is a length without breadth'), five unproved assumptions that Euclid called postulates (now known as axioms), and five further unproved assumptions that he called common notions... Book I then proves elementary theorems about triangles and parallelograms and ends with the Pythagorean theorem." - Britannica.com.