"The book includes introductions, terminology and biographical notes, bibliography, and an index and glossary" --from book jacket.

A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever written Euclid's Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads of mathemat

Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of para

How can we be sure that Pythagoras's theorem is really true? Why is the 'angle in a semicircle' always 90 degrees? And how can tangents help determine the speed

This puplication looks at how the digital age is affecting the field of history for both scholars and students. The book does not seek either to applaud or cond