Euclid's Elements Redux
by Daniel Callahan /
2015 / English / PDF
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"Euclid's 'Elements' Redux" is an open textbook on mathematical logic and geometry for use in grades 7-12 and in undergraduate college courses on proof writing. It is a new edition of the most successful textbook of all time, "The Elements", compiled by Euclid around 300 Bc. It contains several hundred exercises as well as a partial answer key. Although it is a copyrighted work, it is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The goal of this textbook is to provide an open, low-cost, readable edition of Euclid’s “Elements” that can be distributed anywhere in the world. (In terms of the American educational system, this textbook may be used in grades 7-12 as well as undergraduate college courses on proof writing). Euclid’s “Elements” was the foremost math textbook in most of the world for about 2,200 years. Many problem solvers throughout history wrestled with Euclid as part of their early education including Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Sir Isaac Newton, Abraham Lincoln, Bertrand Russell, and Albert Einstein.
