"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries." - Carl Friedrich Gauss
June 21, 2012
I first encountered Oliver Byrne’s 1847 edition of Euclid’s Elements in Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information. Byrne’s was an innovative and captivating approach to the classic work, using colored diagrams rather than the traditional letters to identify the various geometric objects involved in the proofs. On Read more…
I first encountered Oliver Byrne’s 1847 edition of Euclid’s Elements in Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information. Byrne’s was an innovative and captivating approach to the classic work, using colored diagrams rather than the traditional letters to identify the various geometric objects involved in the proofs. On Read more…
I first encountered Oliver Byrne’s 1847 edition of Euclid’s Elements in Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information. Byrne’s was an innovative and captivating approach to the classic work, using colored diagrams rather than the traditional letters to identify the various geometric objects involved in the proofs. On Read more…
I first encountered Oliver Byrne’s 1847 edition of Euclid’s Elements in Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information. Byrne’s was an innovative and captivating approach to the classic work, using colored diagrams rather than the traditional letters to identify the various geometric objects involved in the proofs. On Read more…
I first encountered Oliver Byrne’s 1847 edition of Euclid’s Elements in Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information. Byrne’s was an innovative and captivating approach to the classic work, using colored diagrams rather than the traditional letters to identify the various geometric objects involved in the proofs. On Read more…
I first encountered Oliver Byrne’s 1847 edition of Euclid’s Elements in Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information. Byrne’s was an innovative and captivating approach to the classic work, using colored diagrams rather than the traditional letters to identify the various geometric objects involved in the proofs. On Read more…
I first encountered Oliver Byrne’s 1847 edition of Euclid’s Elements in Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information. Byrne’s was an innovative and captivating approach to the classic work, using colored diagrams rather than the traditional letters to identify the various geometric objects involved in the proofs. On Read more…