Table of Contents
Notes on Euclid Elements
Euclid pdf in Greek and English
David Joyce, Clark University: Eudlid html with Commentary
geogebra.org:
Drawing Tool simulating compass and straight-edge
Notes
pokerface scripts
- i2d.py
- ispiral.py
- liner.html
curriculum python scripts
- example_sinewave_interactive.py
- helix3.py - renamed
- ispiral.py
- test3ddraw.py
khan academy - vector dot product and vector length
khan academy - matric vector products
khan academhy - vectors and spaces - defining the angle between vectors
ikhan academy - electric motors - the dot product
Gil Strang lecture 1: The column space of A contains all vectors Ax
tibetan buddhist chant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iei5QA_aPp8
Projects
- Beauty patterns
- Model sk8 actuators
- Linear arithmetic algebraic geometric exponential logarithmic
- Patterns earthquakes
- String ball not tangle tangled knot skein
- Normal Pareto
Mauy in Phuket https://www.thephuketnews.com/mauy-the-graffiti-artist-spraying-a-wall-near-you-73183.php
Street Art in Chiang Mai http://www.hipthailand.net/variety/art-design/624
Chomsky
The capacity for language and for mathematics did not come about through natural selection.
https://youtu.be/1X-AkJZUIiE
Explanation of complex numbers https://youtu.be/ALc8CBYOfkw
Tesla battery plant in India https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3123802/india-promises-tesla-lowest-production-costs-will-persuade
Sapolsky: three brains: reptilian, limbic, neo cortex https://youtu.be/hg6XUYWj-pk
George Carlin: sociology: individuals versus groups https://youtu.be/Y2NjUKOw1Qg
Chomsky on merge function
- Combine two objects into bigger one
- Example of language used as thought
Looking for a variation of multi-armed archemides spiral https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3718071/looking-for-a-variation-of-multi-armed-archemides-spiral
Who benefits from these beliefs?
If language has not evolved, per Chomsky, can the same be said for all aspects of human behavior?
Contents
Book | Title | Definitions | Propositions |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Fundamentals of Plane Geometry Involving Straight-Lines | 23 | 48 |
2 | Fundamentals of Geometric Algebra | 2 | 14 |
3 | Fundamentals of Plane Geometry Involving Circles | 11 | 37 |
4 | Construction of Rectilinear Figures In and Around Circles | 7 | 16 |
5 | Proportion | 18 | 25 |
6 | Similar Figures | 4 | 33 |
7 | Elementary Number Theory | 22 | 39 |
8 | Continued Proportion | 0 | 27 |
9 | Applications of Number Theory | 0 | 36 |
10 | Incommensurable Magnitudes | 16 | 115 |
11 | Elementary Stereometry (Solid Geometry) | 28 | 39 |
12 | Proportional Stereometry (Measurement) | 0 | 18 |
13 | The Platonic Solids (Regular Solids) | 0 | 18 |
131 | 465 |
Each proposition describes how to draw a geometric shape using only a straight-edge and a compass,
proving equality and inequality of lines and angles, without explicit measurement of either.
Each proposition builds on the ones before.
And therefore, each proposition is an axiom.
Book 1. Plane geometry.
2D shapes that lie in a single plane. Polygons.
point, line, plane, surface
angle: acute, obtuse, perpendicular
boundary, figure: circle, rectilinear
circle, center, semicircle
rectilinear figures: trilateral, quadrilateral, multilateral
trilateral: equilateral, isosceles, scalene, right-angled, obtuse-angled, acute-angled
quadrilateral: square, oblong, rhombus, rhomboid, trapezia
parallel lines (infinite)
Proposition 1.1. How to construct an equilateral triangle.
- Draw the base of the triangle as a line segment $\overline{AB}$.
- Use a compass to draw a circle with center $A$ and radius $B-A$.
- Draw a second such circle with center $B$.
- Take the point $C$ where the two circles intersect.
- The triangle $ABC$ is equilateral.
Proposition 1.2. How to draw two line segments of equal length.
Proposition 1.3. Same as 1.2, alternate method.
Proposition 1.4 A proof that two triangles with two sides and the intervening angle equal, are equal triangles.
Proposition 1.5 A proof that in an isosceles triangle, the two angles at the base are equal.
Proposition 1.6 A proof that in a triangle having two angles equal, the opposite sides will be equal also.
Proposition 1.7 A proof that for any three points, there is only one triangle.
Proposition 1.8
Proposition 47. A proof of the Pythagorean theorem.
Book 2. Geometric algebra.
10 of the 14 propositions can be restated algebraically. quadratic equations.
Proposition 1. The distributive property of multiplication over addition.
\begin{align} x(y_1+y_2+\cdots+y_n) = xy_1+xy_2+\cdots+x y_n\\ \end{align}
Euclid did not use the word “distributive”, nor did he use this equation.
He told the story in terms of lines and rectangles.
x is the length of a line. xy is the area of a rectangle.
Proposition 2. Same as prop 1, but only using 1 cut, two rectangles.
\begin{align} x(y_1+y_2) = xy_1+xy_2\\ \end{align}
Proposition 3.
\begin{align} x = y + z \iff xy = y_2 + yz\\ \end{align}