Pictorial Proofs of Euclid’s Elements
http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/byrne.html
Reference, Resources, Stimulus
Full scan of Oliver Byrne’s 1847 masterpiece: Euclid’s Elements presented in colour pictogram style proofs (proofs with very few words). Pages can be used to give to students to decipher/explain – or as part of an exploration of the idea and history of mathematical proof. See for example http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/book1/byrne-4.html
14 September 2011 Edit: 31 October 2019
User submitted, thanks to Nordin Zuber
- Topics:
- Space and Geometry, Construction, Similarity, Triangles
- NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus
- Measurement and Geometry, MA5.3-16MG Properties of Geometrical Figures
- NSW Curriculum New
- Measurement and space, Properties of geometrical figures, MA5-GEO-P-02 Properties of geometrical figures C (Path)
- NSW Mathematics Extension 2 Stage 6 Syllabus
- Proof, MEX-P1 The Nature of Proof
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