The Evolution of the Euclidean Elements: A Study of the Theory of Incommensurable Magnitudes and Its Significance for Early Greek Geometry

by Wilbur Richard Knorr

Book Overview

The present work has three principal objectives: (1) to fix the chronology of the development of the pre-Euclidean theory of incommensurable magnitudes beginning from the first discoveries by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027711925
• ISBN13: 9789027711922
• Release Date: October 1980
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 379 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"