Euclid’s elements

Euclid’s Elements form one of the most beautiful and influential works of science in the history of humankind. Its beauty lies in its logical development of geometry and other branches of mathematics. It has influenced all branches of science but none so much as mathematics and the exact sciences. The Elements have been studied 24…

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Erlangen Program

Felix Klein’s so-called Erlangen Program was published in 1872 as professoral dissertation. It proposed a new solution to the problem how to classify and characterize geometries on the basis of projective geometry and group theory. The given translation was made in 1892 by Dr. M. W. Haskell and transcribed by N. C. Rughoonauth. http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3161

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