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Book · 300 BC · Nonfiction

Euclid's Elements

Euclid
Art Meets Science · 308 pages
★ 7.6 editorial score

Five assumptions about points and lines, and from them Euclid derives hundreds of theorems, up to the proof that the primes never run out. You finish knowing what a proof is.

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Treatise
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300 BCDepicts Classical Antiquity

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“Philosophy is written in this grand book-I mean the universe-which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth.”

Galileo Galilei