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Euclid and his Successors: Some Confusion and a Way Out

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

Many of us who learned Euclid in our schooldays, feel that something substantial has been lost in the training in precise expression and logical statement that it gave. Even those mathematical teachers who would admit no such thing, must admit, if their experience is anything like my own, that many of their colleagues, particularly science teachers, have deplored the loss of what was at least a standard of reference for logical form.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1924

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