Eva Brann reviews reviews The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements, by David Berlinski, at CRB E-Reviews.
"The title 'Elements' betokens: choice of beginnings, logical sequence, economy of theorems, dramatic culmination. What those terms describe is a system: Euclid, Berlinski points out, shows us that the mathematical insights he draws into his book are interconnected, that there is 'mathematics,' a tight-woven realm of related 'learnables,' as the Greek word, mathematika, signifies, a world for which Euclid has found deft beginnings and dramatic directions."[link fixed -ed.]
See Euclid, Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 11, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 10.
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