Zusammenfassung
Geometrische Beweise für algebraische Tatsachen finden sich bereits im berühmtesten Mathematikbuch aller Zeiten, den Elementen Euklids. Einer der besten Kenner der antiken Mathematik, Thomas Heath, hat die Bedeutung dieses Buches so beschrieben:
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So long as mathematics is studied, mathematicians will find it necessary and worth while to come back again and again, for one purpose or another, to the twenty-two-centuries old book which, notwithstanding its imperfections, remains the greatest elementary textbook in mathematics the world is privileged to possess.
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Lemmermeyer, F. (2015). Euklid und seine Elemente . In: Mathematik à la Carte. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45270-7_6
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