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by Lewis Carroll
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ISBN: 0486495663 Dover Publications Price: $50.00 |
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The author of Alice in Wonderland (and an Oxford professor of mathematics) employs the fanciful format of a play set in Hell to take a hard look at late-19th-century interpretations of Euclidean geometry. Carroll's penetrating observations on geometry are accompanied by ample doses of his famous wit. 1885 edition.
Unabridged republication of the rare second, enlarged edition, Macmillan, London, England, 1885.
Table of Contents for Euclid and His Modern Rivals
| Introduction by H. S. M. Coxeter | |||||||
| Act I. Preliminaries to the examination of Modern Rivals | |||||||
| Act II. Manuals which reject Euclid's treatment of Parallels | |||||||
| Act III. Manuals which adopt Euclid's treatment of Parallels | |||||||
| Act IV. Manual of Euclid | |||||||
| Appendices |