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Interesting and pleasant to read. I find it inspiring that some people today (but more a couple of generations ago) still learn geometry from (usually translat
by leephillips 6y ago
Interesting and pleasant to read.
I find it inspiring that some people today (but more a couple of generations ago) still learn geometry from (usually translations of) Euclid’s Elements. I just love the idea that people still study math from a book more than 2,000 years old.
- jfengel 6y agoAt St. John's College, their mathematics textbooks are Euclid and Ptolemy, in the original. (They also read Plato, Homer, and Herodotus.) They also use Principia for physics, but in English. Slackers.
- leephillips 6y agoAh, yes. I’ve had colleagues who went to this unique college.
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