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I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious in the world. -- Bertrand Russell

If you want your students to really grapple with Euclid, this is the edition to choose. -- Fernando Q. Gouvea, MAA online, August 2002

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All Thirteen Books on One Volume! Green Lion Press has prepared a new one-volume edition of T.L. Heath s translation of the thirteen books of Euclid s Elements. In keeping with Green Lion s design commitment, diagrams have been placed on every spread for convenient reference while working through the proofs; running heads on every page indicate both Euclid s book number and proposition numbers for that page; and adequate space for notes is allowed between propositions and around diagrams. The all-new index has built into it a glossary of Euclid s Greek terms.

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  • Hardcover: 527 pages
  • Publisher: Green Lion Press (August 20, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1888009187
  • ISBN-13: 978-1888009187
  • Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.1 x 2.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Keep adding stars and don't stop, May 20, 2003
By Scabby Babbage (New Brunswick, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Euclid's Elements (Paperback)
There are two kinds of people who will read this review. Those who already know the book and want me to review the edition, and those who don't know the book.

To the first; this is a no-glue sturdy edition - happy to be photocopied - with all of the books bound in one nice portable volume. Despite being reasonably compact, there is ample space on every page for notes, and the diagrams are large and clear. It's really good.

To the second;THIS IS THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN BY A HUMAN. I'm not kidding and I'm not exaggerating; there is no way to express the joy of reading Euclid without sounding like a lunatic. There are very few books which reach their umpteenth thousandth edition without promising a posthumous infinity of bliss. The bliss of 'The Elements' is admittedly finite, but it delivers right away. This is an electrifying piece of work which has produced a chorus of rapture and inspiration lasting two millennia. Poets have penned homage to its beauty. Philosophers and mathematicians have wept. Theologians saw God in its perfection. As war, pestilence and plague tortured humanity, as the empires of despots rose and crumbled, the devout risked death rather than surrender this book. Why? Because they had read it.

It is a cure for math-phobia, and can be read by anyone who is at least a little studious and over the age of 12.

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5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST edition available to date., October 25, 2005
By Kersi Von Zerububbel "Kersi" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
  
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This edition of Elements put out by a publisher called Greenlion is superb. The font size, text layout, figures adjacent to propositions, and wide margins make this book very convenient to follow the logic behind each proposition. I used to own the three volume edition put out by Dover but this one beats it by leaps and bounds.

Of course Euclid's Elements, to my mind, ranks as one of the majesterial achievements of the human mind. I follow the format of one proposition a week till I complete the cycle. Then take a respite for a year or two and repeat the exercise.

In 1963 during a train journey from Bangalore to Bombay (via.Poona), India, I was reading Dr. Radhakrishnan's Indian Philosophy. Upon noticing this an elderly gentleman admonished me to stop wasting time and go with something he called "the great Eee-u-clid's ideas". He then gave me one of the best lectures in Western Philosophy that I can remember. Euclid, he said, is far more than geometry. This was my introduction to Euclid other than High School geometry. This gentleman told me that he had written down each propositon and proof from volumes available at the goverment Public Library in Cubbon Park, Bangalore. He was a clerk at the library who had no formal education. Everytime I open the Elements I think of Mr. Gururaj. Such is the beauty and power of Euclid.
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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Truly Fitting Vehicle for this Masterpiece of Greek Wisdom, March 12, 2007
Euclid's Elements: all thirteen books complete in one volume. The Thomas L. Heath Translation. Dana Densmore, Editor. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Green Lion Press, 2002. Cloth, 529 pp. ISBN 1888009187.

I have just received my hardcover copy of 'Euclid's Elements' and must say that Green Lion Press is to be congratulated on having given us, not only an accurate and uncluttered student-friendly edition of Euclid, but a book that in terms of its physical makeup is truly splendid.

What a striking contrast this Green Lion Press book is to the over-priced trash so many publishers see fit to inflict on us today. Rather than the sort of pseudo-book we have grown accustomed to - books on paper of mediocre quality in imitation cloth-covered boards; books with those wretched thermoplastic spines that either won't open flat or if opened will immediately crack; books designed to self-destruct after only minimal use - Green Lion Press has given us something very different.

Their hardcover edition is cased in sturdy real cloth-covered boards. Its pages are Smyth-sewn in the traditional manner so that the book will open flat. It is beautifully printed on durable high-quality paper and the typography and layout are also excellent.

Green Lion Press has, in short, given us A REAL BOOK at a reasonable price, one that will easily withstand the heavy use most readers will be giving it, and one that is a truly fitting vehicle for this masterpiece of Greek wisdom.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Review from a Greek who has read Ta Stoixeia(The Elements) in Greek.
The Elements is a work that every mathematician should read. In fact, a Math PHd degree should not be granted to anyone without such a one passing a comprehensive examination on... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars What more can be said?
I feel like I cannot adequately praise such an obviously beautiful and enduring classic of mathematics. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A superior edition
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This book, a translation from Greek, is one of the most printed and used books
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Published 10 months ago by Martin H. Eastburn

4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, but I prefer the recent Fitzpatrick edition ...
No doubt this is a precious edition, but the recent one by Richard Fitzpatrick in Greek and English is really astounding (and affordable), especially the version in 4 volumes,... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Giuseppe Tulli

5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful and functional rendering of one of the all-time greats.
This edition of the Elements is not a new translation -- it's Heath's classic translation that has stood as the authoritative English version for almost a century. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Robert N. Talbert

5.0 out of 5 stars nice edition of a beautiful classic
Euclid's Elements is a beautiful classic, and anyone with a serious interest in mathematics should look at it at some point. Read more
Published on June 23, 2007 by Nim Sudo

1.0 out of 5 stars i erred in criticizing this binding and in assigning one star
I received my copy of the softcover euclid's elements, and it looked glued to me, not sewn. This was my error, and indeed it is both sewn AND glued, hence it took a little more... Read more
Published on May 29, 2007 by mathwonk

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Newton read Euclid's Elementals to learn geometry in one year and had developed his own mathematics called calculus. Read more
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