Beginning. Books I-XV. Euclid

It is difficult to overestimate the meaning of the “beginnings” of Euclid for mathematics. Written around the 3rd century. BC. e. The work of ancient Greek mathematician for its more than two thousandth existence has not lost significance and interest for both mathematics historians and mathematicians working on modern problems.

presented in this publication, the translation from Greek was made by the famous Russian mathematics , by the historian of science, the methodologist and teacher D. D. Morduhai-Boltovsky, is considered by many researchers the most accurate of existing translations into Russian. This is the last in time the full academic publication of the labor of Euclid, equipped with detailed comments of the translator. In addition to 13 books “Beginnings”, undoubtedly written by Euclid, it contains 2 books (XIV and XV), written by other authors, but the authorship of which is until the 16th century. It was attributed to Euclid.

, which also published in our publishing house, includes detailed comments by D. D. Morduhai-Boltovsky to “Principles”, the purpose of which is to facilitate the understanding of the text and inform the necessary historical and mathematical information.

The publication will be useful both to specialists - mathematicians, physicists, historians of science - who want to work with the translation of “beginnings”, the closest in meaning to the original text, and a wide range of readers who are interested in mathematics and its history. < /p>