... sunset and the almost perfectly triangular shape of the volcano to the carefully studied proportions of architectural designs and the sharply defined muscles of an athletic man, we see the very elements of the art that measures the world that I spoke of. This art is geometry "the measuring of ... place where life is worth living. The tools to understand the science of measuring the figures, patterns and magnitudes found both in nature and in man's creation were bequeathed to us by another great thinker of antiquity, Euclid of Alexandria. In thirteen books he collected The Elements of geo...

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