Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry

Opinionated History of Mathematics

Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry

June 21, 2020

Greek geometry is written in a style adapted to oral teaching. Mathematicians memorised theorems the way bards memorised poems. Several oddities about how Euclid’s Elements is written can be explained this way.

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Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry

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