Teaching Geometry According to Euclid, Volume 47, Number 4
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460 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 47, NUMBER 4 I n the fall semester of 1988, I taught an undergraduate course on Euclidean and nonEuclidean geometry. I had previously taught courses in projective geometry and algebraic geometry, but this was my first time teaching Euclidean geometry and my first exposure to non-Euclidean geometry. I used the delightful book by Greenberg [8], which I believe my students enjoyed as much as I did. As I taught similar courses in subsequent years, I began to be curious about the origins of geometry and started reading Euclid’s Elements [12]. Now I require my students to read at least Books I–IV of the Elements. This essay contains some reflections and questions arising from my encounters with the text of Euclid.
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