Timeline for When Euclid was used as a textbook, what exercises did students do?
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| Aug 19 at 19:19 | answer | added | DanBM | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 13, 2020 at 1:04 | comment | added | Rusty Core | Kiselev's course (Book I, Planimetry and Book II, Stereometry) is a sort of a re-imagining of Euclid. The original course has a matching problem book. The translated course has problems like "Is it possible to tile the entire plane by non-overlapping regular polygons having 140 degrees between adjacent sides" or "Prove that in a right triangle three altitudes pass through a common point." No worksheets, just plain paper, pencil and compasses. | |
| May 12, 2020 at 20:20 | answer | added | Ben Dunlap | timeline score: 6 | |
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| Mar 15, 2019 at 18:29 | answer | added | mweiss | timeline score: 8 | |
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| Feb 21, 2019 at 6:06 | answer | added | Scott Eberle | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 19, 2019 at 15:37 | comment | added | Nick C | There is still a Great Books program used at some universities, where the primary texts include Elements. For example (found by Googling "great books program college mathematics"), at St. John's College students study Euclid, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Descartes, Apollonius, Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, etc. It might be instructive to see how programs still using these books handle the need for practice problems. | |
| Feb 19, 2019 at 5:01 | answer | added | Sciolism Apparently | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 23:20 | history | asked | user507 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |