Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Galaxy Books) (Paperback)

Euclidean geometry was history's first example of a system of knowledge. Egyptian and Babylonian geometry texts are little more than lists of facts and formulas. But Euclid had not just put together a set of facts, he had assembled those facts into a structure. ................
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