The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe

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The unevenness of the several books and the varied mathematical levels may give the impression that Euclid was but an editor of treatises written by other mathematicians. To some extent, this is certainly true, although it is probably impossible to figure out which parts are his own and which are adaptations of his predecessors. Euclid’s contemporaries considered his work final and authoritative; if more was to be said, it had to be as commentaries to the Elements. Influence Bunt, Jones & Bedient 1988, p.142 state, "the Elements became known to Western Europe via the Arabs and the Moors. There, the Elements became the foundation of mathematical education. More than 1000 editions of the Elements are known. In all probability, it is, next to the Bible, the most widely spread book in the civilization of the Western world." Each chapter and even each sub-section tells a fun and fascinating tale along the way while we watch the author try (and sometimes fail) to add another element to his collection.

Murdoch, John E. (1967). "Euclides Graeco-Latinus: A Hitherto Unknown Medieval Latin Translation of the Elements Made Directly from the Greek". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 71: 249–302. doi: 10.2307/310767. JSTOR 310767. Typographia Medicea (edition of the Arabic translation of The Recension of Euclid's "Elements" [39] Hartshorne, Robin (2000). Geometry: Euclid and Beyond (2nded.). New York, NY: Springer. ISBN 9780387986500. Book 6 applies proportions to plane geometry, especially the construction and recognition of similar figures.

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Wilson 2006, p.278 states, "Euclid's Elements subsequently became the basis of all mathematical education, not only in the Roman and Byzantine periods, but right down to the mid-20th century, and it could be argued that it is the most successful textbook ever written." Book 1 contains 5 postulates (including the infamous parallel postulate) and 5 common notions, and covers important topics of plane geometry such as the Pythagorean theorem, equality of angles and areas, parallelism, the sum of the angles in a triangle, and the construction of various geometric figures. Boyer 1991, p.100 notes, "As teachers at the school he called a band of leading scholars, among whom was the author of the most fabulously successful mathematics textbook ever written – the Elements ( Stoichia) of Euclid".Mathematical Treasures - Greek Edition of Euclid's Elements | Mathematical Association of America". maa.org.