Book of the Month: August 2021
Benjamin Wardhaugh, Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World (Princeton University Press, 2021)
Summary: A literary tour through the many ways in which boring, old geometry — the Elements of Euclid — influenced people in disparate fields and cultures for millennia.
Key Quote: "Again and again, new generations in new places have encountered the Elements and done new things with it. It has travelled through worlds that could never have been imagined by the Greeks who first wrote and read the text.” - p. 13
Bottom Line: Read this book if you’re really into geometry.
