[Edu-sig] Re: Edu-sig digest, Vol 1 #638 - 9 msgs

[Arthur]

>If you want a guinea pig - try me: I could benefit from a decent math
>education and I'd be upfront in giving you feedback!!

I'm horribly predictable.

THE THIRTEEN BOOKS OF EUCLID'S ELEMENTS
translated from the Text of Heinberg
with Introduction and Commentary by Thomas L. Heath
Second Edition (orignally published 1908)
In print Dover Publications, Inc.

Just get through Books 1 & 2 - with the commentaries, and *doing the
constructions*.

The fact that you already know the substance of what you will encounter
there from other sources, does not alllow you to opt out of this as a
prerequisite. In other words, it's quite possible that you have already seen
the movie version.  Doesn't count.

Kirby, I'm quite sure, would disagree with this advice, BTW.

I don't really know what he would consider as a prerequisie.

Art