This was the book that got me into mathematics. After years of being afraid of the subject, I did a little digging and decided to start here, at the very beginning. I was hooked. I went through the books, proof by proof, constantly being amazed at what I was learning, and how easy it was for me to comprehend. From these books I was able to springboard into many other areas of mathematics, but I owe it all to Euclid.

T.L. Heath's translation is quite perfect, and his explanations of the proofs and the historical background he provides make him the absolute authority on the subject. This is the best translation out there, hands down.

Now if you permit me to say that Euclid's ideas from so long ago are still being used in the understanding of how subatomic (elementary) particles work together to form the matter we see around us. This volume and Volume 3 are part of that elementary understanding of how muons and prions and other elementary particles work to make the world we live in. One has to love how things work in space. Not bad for an old philosopher with brilliant ideas.

One of the truly great books of the West. Every math student should study it. Every math professor should promote and use it. Alas, few even know of it.

The essence of ALL fundamental reasoning distilled into three very affordable and faithful translations...I would think giving it five stars would be an understatement, but that's as much as I can do! Definitely a must for, well, everyone.

I love this compacted edition of Euclid. I get to head this for school and having all the books in that I need is so wonderful!

We, the children of this new age, are deprived of major classics and beautiful mathematics because of the tediousness of the notation. Oh, do not be optimistic, this is not the only book with forbidding notation, see Artin's Galois theory, which is an excellent book if someone just tries to update its notation.

Aside from that the book was a merry one. It contains more books than the first one. It contains the books 3 up to 9 of Euclid's 13 books of the elements.

Book 3 is a delightful one. Its sole purpose is to characterize circles. It goes with the same style of the first two books given the first volume. Books 4 continues in the same fashion and studies circumscribing and inscribing figures by others.

Book 5 is the first attempt to bring geometry near to algebra. It deals with proportions. The notation started getting more and more cumbersome. He continues giving us things that we know already. And all through the volume until book 9 we see results commonly given in simple college algebra in the most tedious fashion.

I praise this volume only for the material on circles and I see that it is worth reading if you have a strong constitution. As for me I am not going to read the third one about the out of date commensurable numbers.

One of the only commentaries on Books VII - IX I could find. In print, very clear.

This is a well known book. I enjoyed it all the same.

Very interesting, explains the maths from the very first people who were learning and discovering the subject from first principles

Il meglio che si possa trovare in giro sull'argomento. Le edizioni italiane, se ci sono, sono curate

da persone con un orientamento troppo filosofico o umanistico tanto da rendere la loro lettura

difficile alle persone con un orientamento scientifico.

Peccato per l'edizione economica ma tant'è.

La cosa che non mi va giù è che i libri arrivano sempre danneggiati e per questo

solo 3 stelle altrimenti meriterebbe 4 (non 5 per l'edizione un po troppo economica).

Chi sa perché anche se compri un solo bullone questo ti arriva confezionato ma non

esiste confezione per i libri? Si, si, la protezione dell'ambiente capisco , ma sono libri

non immondizia cinese da smaltire in Europa.

Una volta arrivavano in una scatola di cartone e in cellophane. Questo comportamento

è una offesa alla cultura.

Euclide

Un libro importantisimo en las matemáticas

The printing on most pages are very fine, not recommended for people with glasses and/or over 40. There are 2 pre-requisites - unless you are a great mathematician, it is best to read-up "What is Mathematics?" by Richard Courant & Herbert Robbins (revised by Ian Stewart) and, secondly coloured diagrams (in place of simple black and white) would make EUCLID elements simpler to understand.