Euclid and His Modern Rivals
id:
euclid-and-his-modern-rivals-318-11839668
title:
Euclid and His Modern Rivals
text:
Euclid and His Modern Rivals is a mathematical book published in 1879 by the English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), better known under his literary pseudonym "Lewis Carroll". It considers the pedagogic merit of thirteen contemporary geometry textbooks, demonstrating how each in turn is either inferior to or functionally identical to Euclid's Elements. In it Dodgson supports using Euclid's geometry textbook The Elements as the geometry textbook in schools against more modern
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_and_His_Modern_Rivals
date created:
date modified:
2023-10-08T20:35:34Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q1248279","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1248279"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
13