Euclid's Elements of Geometry, with Greek and English texts in side-by-side columns.

" I do. ... " Notices of the AMS, August 1999 "... This book is a pleasure to hold and to look at: ample margins, nice photos, instructive pictures and beautiful drawings .

Later chapters unify geometry and topology, exploring fiber bundles, characteristic classes, and index theorems. New to this second edition is the proof of the index theorem in terms of supersymmetric quantum mechanics.

Introduction to vector algebra in the plane; circles and coaxial systems; mappings of the Euclidean plane; similitudes, isometries, Moebius transformations, much more. Includes over 500 exercises.

This established reference work continues to provide its readers with a gateway to some of the most interesting developments in contemporary geometry.

Moreover, this book will be popular with graduate students and researchers in mathematics due to its attractive and unusual treatment of fundamental topics.

From the reviews of the first edition: "There are many books on the history of mathematics in which mathematics is subordinated to history. This is a book in which history is definitely subordinated to mathematics.

This is a challenging problem-solving book in Euclidean geometry, assuming nothing of the reader other than a good deal of courage.

The significance of the spiral in nature, art, science, and the phenomena of life and growth is probed