----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Chase <pchase@sulross.edu> Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2006 11:15 am Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Rapunsel, Rapunsel
Arthur wrote:
... when you say geometry and I say geometry I think we are talking about largely different things. Fuller has not
influenced me,
and Klein has not influenced you.
How about Euclid? Has he influenced either one of you? How about Euclid? Has he influenced either one of you?
My study of geometry as an adult began with The Elements, and by *doing* its constructions with ruler and compass, on paper. I don't in fact see any computer aided approach an adequate substitute for that. Reading Euclid in English translation is about as far as I wanted to compromise. I'm a practical man ;) Art