We do not find fault with these attempts-we have recently noticed in these columns two admirable editions of the “Elements ... The Text of Euclid's Geometry. Book I., ...

Euclid's elements and Greek mathematics after Euclid, Hindu and Arabian mathematics, European mathematics from 500 to 1600, origins of modern mathematics, analytic geometry, the history of calculus.

The regular convex polyhedra are the five Platonic solids, which have been known since classical Greece. The ancient Greek mathematician Euclid proved in his Elements of Geometry that there are only ...