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In the tallest tower of Castle Underbrook, Princess Carrina sat quietly onher window ledge watching the fading colours of the sunset. Actually, shespent most days locked away in her room, too scared to leave the castle. Astrange magical power was growing inside her but she had no idea what it wasor how to use it.

To the far north, in an ancient cottage buried deep within the woods, anevil ugly witch and her sister were brewing up a dastardly plot. They weregoing to kidnap the royal princess and steal her beauty for themselves!

In the southern part of the kingdom, a fiery-haired boy named Flame washaving an adventure of his own, as he searched and searched for the sourceof the great river while battling boredom and the terrifying rapids.

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Reprint of 1910 Cambridge University Press, Second edition. Cloth, [vi] 387 pp. With a Supplement Containing an Account of Fermat's Theorems and Problems Connected with Diophantine Analysis and Some Solutions of Diophantine. ... Read more

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Profoundly humbling.
It is difficult to argue with the fact that Euclid stands as one of the founding figures of mathematics. The ability of the ancient Greeks to perform complex mathematical calculations using only logic, a compass and a straight edge is profoundly humbling. Euclid's 13 books cover an enormous swath of math, from planar geometry to trignometry to irrational numbers and root finding to 3D geometry.At one point you feel he is on the cusp of discovering the Calculus.Considering these pages were written more than two thousand years ago I stand in awe.

That said, I have some serious problems with the way Euclid's materials are presented in this Dover Mathematics book.The book itself (a three volume set actually) is a reproduction of Sir Thomas Heath's famous Elements of 1908.This is the second Dover edition and it is unabridged.Usually I'm not a fan of abridgements but this book could certainly use it.At the very least some modernization of the notes and introductory essays would seem to be in order.Of course, if you approach this book as amathematician, you will likely skip over the first hundred or so pages and be spared some pain.If you are a student of philosophy you aren't so lucky.Heath's notes are dense, tangential, and require the mastery of at least four languages, two of which are now dead.Latin and Greek quotes of considerable length are left untranslated as an exercise for the reader, and French and German receive similar treatment.At times the footnotes threaten to overwhelm the text and for every page of Euclid there must be at least 3 pages of commentary.References to obscure mathematical theory and little known Greek manuscripts abound.I understand that this is Victorian Age scholarly writing at its height but it makes it a tough read - and I say this as someone with a background in Latin, Greek and French as well as considerable mathematical (never got much past partial differential equations) background. Heath was a polymath of the highest order.

If you are brave enough to tackle this book you may want to grab just the volume that interests you.The first volume contains introductory remarks by Heath and most of the well known postulates related to geometry.Book I, postulate 5 (I.5) is the well know triangle inequality while I.47 is the geometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem - a thing of rare beauty.In the second volume, Books III and IV deal with circles and arcs while Book V deals with ratios.I found the proofs with respect to ratios difficult to follow owing partially to the language in which they are couched. Book VI applies the theory of ratios to geometric figures while books VII and VIII deal with factorization, multiples and primes.Book IX deals with prime numbers, perfect numbers and odd and even numbers.The third volume begins with Book X which deals at length with rational and irrational numbers.It is here that the Greek methods seem to be a little weak, requiring rather clumsy proofs which would be much simpler in modern notation.Still, it is amazing to see the math they did with what they had.Books XI and XII deal with solids - spheres, prisms, parallelpipeds and pyramids - while Book XIII deals with the platonic solids.It is here that Euclid approaches calculus with his method of proof by exhaustion.The persistent reader will, by this point, also be quite exhausted but, as a bonus, Heath throws in the sometimes attributed Books XIV and XV, both of which are brief and neither of which are by Euclid.

If you are planning on buying this book I would recommend you consider the reason carefully.If you are looking for a math text there must surely be something more modern with a more concise commentary available.If you are a student of Greek philosophy you may find the first volume useful for its introductory notes but the last two volumes are likely unhelpful.If you are fluent in Latin, Greek, French, German and English, have a background in ancient greek literature, Renaissance and 19th century mathematical theory, and love geometric proofs then this is the book for you

Euclid's book
Excellent book, although somewhat specific for whoever is interested in geometry and its history

One of the Classics!
There are at least 3 good reasons to read this book:

* Even though it's 2300 years old, it's still a great way to learn geometry!That's because Euclid was one of the great pedagogues of all time.
* It's one of the classics.Literally, in that it dates from the classical era.Figuratively, too: it's one of the most read books of all time, and is responsible for a particular style of (mathematical) writing.
* It's a necessary pre-requisite to reading the work of any European mathematician from the medieval period through the 18th century.You can't appreciate Descartes or Newton, for example, if you don't know your Euclid.

Euclid organized his work into 13 chapters, which are called Books.This edition is organized into three volumes.If you want to get all of Euclid's Elements in one volume, the recent Green Lion edition is superb choice.So why buy this edition?For the wonderful introduction and notes by Thomas L. Heath.If these thorough and scholarly additions will bore you, then go for the Green Lion.But if you're interested in the history and influence of Euclid's Elements, this is the edition to read.

What we consider to be basic plane geometry is contained in Books 1, 3, 4 and 6 of Euclid's Elements. (So if you want to cover that material, you'll need to buy this volume and volume 2 of the same edition.)Along the way, Euclid covers the Theory of Proportions in Book 5 and "Geometric Algebra" in Book 2.While the material in Books 1, 3, 4 and 6 is still taught today, with slightly different notation and terminology, those other two books are out of step with modern mathematical practice.

This volume contains a very long introduction, plus Books 1 and 2.Book 1 covers triangles and parallelograms in 48 propositions.Book 2 involves 14 geometrical propositions that have approximately equivalent algebraic versions.The greatest hits are: The Pythagorean Theorem (Book 1, Proposition 47) and the construction of the geometric mean (Book 2, Proposition 14).

Euclid is Liberal
There is no better way begin your journey to freedom then my knowing the books of Euclid."None may inter who have not studied the works of Euclid"-unknown.
Heath's notes are very helpful in understanding the history and problems of various propositions.

Reviewing editor Heath, not Euclid
Euclid hardly needs reviews after two millennia of endorsements. Until the advent of mass-produced texts, endorsements came by way of large sums of money or time, or both. Therefore, if we do not understand what Euclid is writing about, there is overwhelming evidence that this failure is ours, not Euclid's. If we decry the unfamiliarity of Euclid's way of reasoning and his manner of writing his mathematics as being less clear or efficient than our own, we are simply expressing our faith--perhaps misplaced--in our own mathematical culture. Clearly, if one's purpose is to learn geometric techniques and results, other books may serve as well or better; if one's purpose is to understand mathematics, the thirteen books of the Elements are without equal.

The Heath edition of Euclid's Elements actually consists of three volumes: volume 1 has Euclid's Books I and II; Heath's volume 2 contains Euclid's Books III - IX; and his volume 3 encompasses Euclid's remaining Books X - XIII. Books VII, VIII, and IX are about "arithmetic," not "geometry"--a feature of the Elements often left unstated. Throughout, Heath intersperses his notes and comments, so the three volumes actually consist of as much Heath as Euclid. (Just Heath's translation, alone, is reproduced in the Great Books of the Western World, published in 1952 by University of Chicago.) Up until recently, maybe as late as the nineteenth century, a typical reader of Euclid would be quite familiar with Plato and therefore know that arithmetic and geometry are the philosophical branches of mathematics; music and astronomy are the remaining branches of mathematics, although somewhat contaminated since--in the Greek understanding as expressed by Plato--music and astronomy introduce motion, which is not strictly a mathematical topic.

Niceties such as these, and there are many others, would be lost to us if Euclid were transformed by using modern symbolism. Consider proposition 47 of Book I, the so-called Pythagorean theorem: Euclid talks about constructing squares on the sides of a triangle and never even hints at the possibility of the sides being "numbers." In fact, Euclid and all of his notable contemporaries and successors up to about the 15th century would consider the term "irrational number" as utter nonesensical babble--something more dangerous than an oxymoron such as a "square circle" because "square" and "circle" are not fundamental ideas. These comments may raise more questions than they purport to answer, but they give background to reviewing Heath, rather than Euclid.

Heath's edition, taken in toto, would have been very difficult to improve. His notes and collecting together of earlier commentaries represent a remarkable achievement in scholarship. He certainly made errors, but he provided nearly the best edition of Euclid possible at the opening of the last century. Heath made several efforts to explain the contents of Euclid by appealing to contemporary ideas and notations and, at least for me, these explanations simply reinforced the view that Euclid dealt with profound unanswerable questions that remain unanswered in contemporary mathematics.

Heath translated and edited several Greek primary sources, including Archimedes and Apollonius. Comparing his earlier translations with his later (in his career) Euclid, one immediately sees that Heath tried to preserve more faithfully Euclid's manner of speaking than he did Apollonius's or Archimedes'. This historigraphic point is important: if we are to respect the ancient Greeks by trying to understand or know their culture and values on their terms, we must have access to their culture with as few filters as possible. This line of arguing suggests that we should first study ancient Greek and then read Euclid, perhaps an ideal approach. Very few readers of Euclid take this approach. Hence, for an English reader (which includes readers of many other languages), a more faithful rendering of the Greek into English has greater importance because it does not filter the implicit culture as much as a less faithful rendering.

These views are my historian views. As a mathematician, I think of mathematics as timeless and critique any mathematical work on the basis of whether it represents good (read this as "my") mathematics. Heath knew his mathematics; he frequently calls on ideas from Cantor, who at this time is in the middle of his seminal publications. I would take the same critical approach if I were a philosopher--is Euclid good philosophy in that he provides answers to philosophical questions, regardless of whether many refinements have been formulated since Euclid? (By the way, there is no explicit philosophy in Euclid, but a lot of implicit philosophy.) In terms of editing a crucial historical document, Heath's work has withstood the test of about one century, and rightly so in my judgment. His Euclid is likely found among the personal books of people with a high regard for education. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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In this rich history of the team that has long brought together Washingtonians of all backgrounds, the renowned Washington Post sports staff-using fresh interviews as well as the historic record-weaves compelling tales about Washington's team. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword (George Solomon) Introduction (Thomas Boswell) Chapter 1: In the Beginning (William Gildea), George Preston Marshall (Shirley Povich), Sammy Baugh (Shirley Povich), Trivia Quiz 1 Chapter 2 - The 1950s and 1960s: Trying to Kick the Losing Habit (Ken Denlinger), Trivia Quiz 2, Sonny Jurgensen (Anthony Cotton) Chapter 3 - The 1970s: Heading Down the Glory Road (Leonard Shapiro), Fans from Someplace Else (Michael Wilbon), Trivia Quiz 3 Chapter 4 - The 1980s: As Good as It Gets (David Sell), Art Monk (Richard Justice), Trivia Quiz 4 Chapter 5 - The 1990s: Another Championship - And Beyond (Richard Justice), Trapped in a Joke (Tony Kornheiser), Trivia Quiz 5 Chapter 6 - The Stadium That Jack Kent Cooke Built (Thomas Heath) Names and Numbers: All the Players and Games Trivia Quiz Answers Index ... Read more

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not as bad as advertised
Yes, there are some typos and such in the early chapters but the book isn't as lousy as described in the 2-star review.Most of the problems are hyphen-ated words that are not at the end of a page or line.It is like the typeset was changed but the book was not reproofed.

Still, there is a lot of good information in the book.I think it covers items that Loverro's book (very good as well) ignored or glossed over-- how Gibbs wanted to sign and trade Riggo and how Joe Jacoby ended up sticking around in that first camp.The Times summary makes it sound like Gibbs and Beathard were geniuses building a team.This book shows that they were also lucky geniuses.If you are a Skins fan, you should own this book.

I see there is also a newer edition out with the Synder years (ugh).

not as bad as advertised
Yes, there are some typos and such in the early chapters but the book isn't as lousy as described in the 2-star review.Most of the problems are hyphen-ated words that are not at the end of a page or line.It is like the typeset was changed but the book was not reproofed.

Still, there is a lot of good information in the book.I think it covers items that Loverro's book (very good as well) ignored or glossed over-- how Gibbs wanted to sign and trade Riggo and how Joe Jacoby ended up sticking around in that first camp.The Times summary makes it sound like Gibbs and Beathard were geniuses building a team.This book shows that they were also lucky geniuses.If you are a Skins fan, you should own this book.

I see there is also a newer edition out with the Synder years (ugh).

A great idea, careless and unprofessional execution
As a die hard Redskins fan, I was very sorry to see this excellent concept so badly muffed.The idea behind this book is to cash in on the Washington Post vault, providing great photos and articles combined with new pieces bylong-time Skins beat reporters to tie it all together.Sadly, whoeveredited and proofread this thing reeeally dropped the ball.Sentences atthe bottom of the page are repeated at the top of the next, photographs aremislabeled, pieces of sentences are missing, words are chopped off in themiddle.Probably still of some value for the die hard Skins fan, but areal black eye for the Washington Post.If their newspaper were producedas shoddily, Richard Nixon would have finished his second term. ... Read more

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The Summa Theologiae ranks among the greatest documents of the Christian Church, and is a landmark of medieval western thought. It provides the framework for Catholic studies in systematic theology and for a classical Christian philosophy, and is regularly consulted by scholars of all faiths and none, across a range of academic disciplines. This paperback reissue of the classic Latin/English edition first published by the English Dominicans in the 1960s and 1970s, in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, has been undertaken in response to regular requests from readers and librarians around the world for the entire series of 61 volumes to be made available again. The original text is unchanged, except for the correction of a small number of typographical errors. ... Read more