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For a nicely illustrated and colored text of Euclid's Elements see: Byrne: Six Books of Euclid : https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/3836559382 https://smile.a
by kqr2 9y ago
For a nicely illustrated and colored text of Euclid's Elements see: Byrne: Six Books of Euclid :
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/3836559382 https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/3836559382
- JoshMnem 9y agoThanks for that tip. It's also online here: https://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/euclid/byrne.html https://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/euclid/byrne.html
- reggieband 9y agoI've worked through at least the first book of this version and it is a very nice intro to the material. One large annoyance I have is the mistakes. I was trying to follow the proofs closely and there are some errors both in the diagrams and in the text. Many of these are called out in the intro so I found myself flipping between the corrections section and the pages to make sure I had a very clear idea of each proof. This can make some of the later proofs a bit cumbersome to follow since they all build on one another. So if a later proof is built on proofs that contain mistakes it is distracting and a lot of page flipping.
- aidos 9y agoJust saw this and came on to post the same thing. It's such a lovely book, I got it in hardback last year. I've actually just switched over to HN from playing a Euclid game I've been totally addicted to this last week. Go on, I dare you.... :-) https://www.euclidea.xyz/game https://www.euclidea.xyz/game
- Koshkin 9y agoFor those who would like to see the original, here's a dual language version: http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/Books/Euclid/Elements.pdf http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/Books/Euclid/Elements.pdf. The text includes a lexicon which is surprisingly short.