Question

Has anyone every actually tried reading Euclid Elements? I cant seem to get past making an equilateral triangle before I just want to fall asleep.

This thing is a snooze-fest :/

Answer 1

i considered it ever since seeing khanacademy thing about geometry, but after trying to read newton's principia, im afraid to try. :(

Answer 2

i cant believe theres X books at least.

Answer 3

I know newton made a bunch of circles and arcs and lines and such ... oy!!

Answer 4

nothing in here looks the least bit interesting tonight either :/

Answer 5

nope, ive resorted to reading my algebra 2 book and trying to figure out the error i saw earlier. D:

Answer 6

i was gonna read hawkings "god created the integers" but it starts out with euclids elements lol ...ugh

Answer 7

picked up a book on number theory and it starts with; this is how we divide ....

Answer 8

identify the axis of symmetry when we give you x=2 as the axis of symmetry lol

Answer 9

it takes longer to type these "give me the answer" questions in than it does to solve them ....

Answer 10

heh, yeah... there was somebody earlier who seemed to just be posting their entire hw assignment up, and im pretty sure it was just linear equations. :p

Answer 11

yeah, i used to call that the homework hour. post your stuff; go play some video games, come back and write up all the answers ....

Answer 12

find the inverse of a linear equation ....

Answer 13

"You can solve an equation of the form x^(n/m) = k by raising each side of the equation to the power n/m..." I think the book is lying to me. :(

Answer 14

burn it on the bonfire; thatll teach it a lesson ;)

Answer 15

since cross products are not commutable; the product rule application on a cross product is very specific.

D[axb] = a'xb+axb'

teacher had it as a'xb+b'xa :)