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Following in the footsteps of his bestselling The Calculus Story, David Acheson offers a highly illustrated tour of geometry, from ancient Greece to the present

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Geometry is brought to life as Euclid explains principles of Geometry to his friends. With jokes and lots of illustrations, discover the beauty of geometry and,