SOURCE: "Euclid's Elements" in An Introduction to the Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1958, pp. 30-57.
In the following excerpt, Eves and Newsom review the formal nature and significance of Elements, arguing that the work offers the earliest extensive development of the axiomatic method, and that the impact of this form of analysis on the development of mathematics has been tremendous.
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