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Euclid*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

W. C. Fletcher
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In this address I use the word Euclid not as the name of the man but as a short title for the XIII books of his Elements of Geometry. The “Euclid” of our schooldays was but a small part of the whole, just as the “Newton” of our Cambridge days was a mere fragment of the Principia. We learnt the whole of Books I-IV, about half of VI and about half of XI, of the rest we knew nothing.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 22 , Issue 248 , February 1938 , pp. 58 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1938

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A paper to the London Brauch of the Mathematical Association, 19th February, 1937.

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* A paper to the London Brauch of the Mathematical Association, 19th February, 1937.