Euclid, databases research

If you choose a term in a specific color, you must follow the path and do the other terms in that same color.

Term: What term did you search; please Indicate if you had to look for a partial term and what it was

Database: Name of the database you were searching in
Journal Name: Journal information, at least title, you can also provide date, volume, and issue; if you don't points WILL NOT be taken off

Author: Authors of the article
Title: Name of the article;

Assignment # and name
Date; Name

How the author references Euclid: At least 5 sentences

​Summary of Abstract: At least 5 sentences

Term: Book III

Journal Name: National Mathematics Magazine; Vol. 11, No. 8 (May, 1937), https://doi.org/10.2307/3028771

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3028771

Author: Norman E. Rutt
Title: The Sources of Euclid

Database: JSTOR

Assignment 3; July 18
TiJeat Berry

How the author references Euclid: Focus on the theories Euclid brought together and where they came from, and from whom.

​Summary of Abstract: Norman Rutt is writing about the works Euclid had access to and that inspired him but that have been lost to history. "Though few, such comments show that an arithmetic in Euclidean shape existed at least fifty years before the period of Euclid's activity" (Rutt, 1937).

Term: Book X

How the author references Euclid: [Euclid’s Fifth Postulate] ought to be struck from the postulates altogether. For it is a theorem — one that invites many questions ... — and requires for its demonstration a number of definitions as well as theorems. ... it lacks the special character of a postulate. — Proclus (Greek, 410–485) [AT: Proclus], p. 151

​Summary of Abstract: Discussion of parallel lines and postulate # 5

Journal Name: Books by Independent Authors, 2020: 124-137 (2020)

Author: David W. Henderson, Daina Taimiņa
Title: Chapter 10. Parallel Postulates; DOI: 10.3792/euclid/9781429799850-14

Database: Project Euclid

Assignment 3; July 16, 2024
TiJeat Berry

​Google Slides Version
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