Cover of Euclid and his Modern Rivals

1879

Euclid and his Modern Rivals

by Lewis Carroll

book

  • 1879

Summary

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.

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