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On the Fifth Book of Euclid's Elements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

M. J. M. Hill
Affiliation:
Peterhouse

Extract

There are in the Fifth Book of Euclid's Elements twelve propositions, the object of which is to prove the equality of two ratios.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1927

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References

* The first paper of this set is in the Transactions, Vol. XVI, the second in Vol. XIX, the third, fourth and fifth in Vol. XXII. There is an addendum to the fifth paper in Vol. XXI of the Proceedings.Google Scholar

This proposition was known to De Morgan, see my fourth paper, p. 185.Google Scholar