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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( 27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the... Read Full Overview

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Euclid And His Modern Rivals is a book written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, and published in 1885. The book is a critique of some of the contemporary geometries that were challenging Euclid's geometry, which had been the standard for over two thousand... Read Full Overview

Euclid And His Modern Rivals is a book written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll, in 1885. The book is a critique of non-Euclidean geometry, which was a new and controversial field of mathematics at the time. Dodgson, who was a mathematician and logician... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Euclid And His Modern Rivals is a book written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll. The book was first published in 1885 and is a critique of modern geometry and its reliance on symbolic notation. In the book, Dodgson compares Euclid's Elements,... Read Full Overview

This classic book is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's 1879 work, "Euclid and his Modern Rivals". It is a mathematical volume that compares thirteen contemporary geometry textbooks, describing each one in relation to its superiority or inferiority to "Euclid's Elements". This volume... Read Full Overview

EUCLID AND HIS MODERN RIVALS by CHARLES L. DODGSON. Originally published in 1879. PROLOGUE: THE object of this little book is to furnish evidence, first, that it is essential, for the purpose of teaching or examining in elementary Geometry, to employ one text book only secondly,... Read Full Overview

Euclid And His Modern Rivals is a book written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, more commonly known as Lewis Carroll. Published in 1885, the book examines the history of geometry and the work of Euclid, the ancient Greek mathematician who is considered the father of geometry. Dodgson... Read Full Overview

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview