1 Pre-Hellenic Antiquity
1.1 Prehistory
1.2 Egypt
1.3 Mesopotamia
1.4 Problems
1.5 Exercises
2 Some Pioneers of Greek Geometry
2.1 Thales of Miletus
2.2 Pythagoras and the Golden Ratio
2.3 Trisecting the Angle
2.4 Squaring the Circle
2.5 Duplicating the Cube
2.6 Incommensurable Magnitudes
2.7 The Method of Exhaustion
2.8 On the Continuity of Space
2.9 Problems
2.10 Exercises
3 Euclid's Elements
3.1 Book 1: Straight Lines
3.2 Book 2: Geometric Algebra
3.3 Book 3: Circles
3.4 Book 4:Polygons
3.5 Book 5: Ratios
3.6 Book 6: Similarities
3.7 Book 7: Divisibility in Arithmetic
3.8 Book 8: Geometric Progressions
3.9 Book 9: More on Numbers
3.10 Book 10:Incommensurable Magnitudes
3.11 Book 11: Solid Geometry
3.12 Book 12: The Method of Exhaustion
3.13 Book 13: Regular Polyhedrons
3.14 Problems
3.15 Exercises
4 Some Masters of Greek Geometry
4.1 Archimedes on the Circle
4.2 Archimedes on the Number π
4.3 Archimedes on the Sphere
4.4 Archimedes on the Parabola
4.5 Archimedes on the Spiral
4.6 Apollonius on Conical Sections
4.7 Apollonius on Conjugate Directions
4.8 Apollonius on Tangents
4.9 Apollonius on Poles and Polar Lines
4.10 Apollonius on Foci
4.11 Heron on the Triangle
4.12 Menelaus on Trigonometry
4.13 Ptolemy on Trigonometry
4.14 Pappus on Anharmonic Ratios
4.15 Problems
4.16 Exercises
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5 Post-Hellenic Euclidean Geometry
6 Projective Geometry
7 Non-Euclidean Geometry
8 Hilbert's Axiomatization of the Plane
Appendix
References and Further Reading
Index
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