Euclid and His Modern RivalsCourier Corporation, 5. mars 2014 - 320 sider 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. |
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Side vi
... give to Geometry much of its beauty" (p. 221). (For some further observations on these aspects of his work, see P. L. Heath's delightful article "Carroll, Lewis," in the Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.) On pages 28-36 we find "TABLE I ...
... give to Geometry much of its beauty" (p. 221). (For some further observations on these aspects of his work, see P. L. Heath's delightful article "Carroll, Lewis," in the Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.) On pages 28-36 we find "TABLE I ...
Side xxxiii
... give him full marks for it: what's the question worth ? — Wait a bit, though ! Where's his paper of yesterday ? I've a very decided impression he was all for 'Euclid' then : and I know the paper had I. 20 in it. . . . Ah, here it is ...
... give him full marks for it: what's the question worth ? — Wait a bit, though ! Where's his paper of yesterday ? I've a very decided impression he was all for 'Euclid' then : and I know the paper had I. 20 in it. . . . Ah, here it is ...
Side 1
... angling ' with them all, anyhow. But, seriously, what are we to do with Cooley? Min. (thoughtfully) Well, if we had him in the Schools, I think we should pluck him. lUiad. But as to this answer ? Min. Oh, give Sc. I.] RHADAMANTHUS.
... angling ' with them all, anyhow. But, seriously, what are we to do with Cooley? Min. (thoughtfully) Well, if we had him in the Schools, I think we should pluck him. lUiad. But as to this answer ? Min. Oh, give Sc. I.] RHADAMANTHUS.
Side 2
Lewis Carroll. lUiad. But as to this answer ? Min. Oh, give it full marks ! What have we to do with logic, or truth, or falsehood, or right, or wrong? ' We are but markers of a larger growth ' — only that we have to mark foul strokes ...
Lewis Carroll. lUiad. But as to this answer ? Min. Oh, give it full marks ! What have we to do with logic, or truth, or falsehood, or right, or wrong? ' We are but markers of a larger growth ' — only that we have to mark foul strokes ...
Side 6
... only kind of difference which could bring two text-books into such hopeless collision that the one or the other would have to be abandoned. Let me give you a few instances of conflicting logical 8 MINOS AND EUCLID. [ACT I.
... only kind of difference which could bring two text-books into such hopeless collision that the one or the other would have to be abandoned. Let me give you a few instances of conflicting logical 8 MINOS AND EUCLID. [ACT I.
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