ruler and compass applet — 1 year ago
I love things like this:
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~sqrt/cons/applet.cgi?width=850&height=520
I love things like this:
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~sqrt/cons/applet.cgi?width=850&height=520
I DID get the Elements (and at quite a steal, at that), but I’ve never got myself to read past the first book. It gets intensely complicated fast.
managed to find a copy of the great books volume containing
euclid, archimedes, appolonius
got distracted by archimedes’ Sand Reckoner where he tries to estimate the number of grains of sand it would take to fill up the entire universe