Hatrack River Forum: Euclid, I hate you... very, very much.

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Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :

For the past three weeks, since my math class ended equation manipulating, my teacher decided it would be fun to get ahead for next year. Thus, instead of doing anything remotely fun... we studied Euclid's first book of elements. We've done the entire first book(all 48 propositions)and I can safely say that next year, in honors geometry, I will not have fun.

Brilliant man though, very brilliant. It's not necessarily so hard, as much it is boring and repetitive. Stupid Euclid, and your parallel watcha ma bobs. Arrrr...

Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :

I wonder if it would be possible to do something else next year, something you don't already know? After all, it is *honors* geometry.

Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :

Old Euclid drew a circle
on a sandbeach long ago.
He bounded and enclosed it
with angles thus and so.
His set of solemn graybeards
nodded and argued much
Of arc and of circumference,
diameter and such.
A silent child stood by them
from morning until noon
because they drew such charming
round pictures of the moon.

-- "Euclid" -- Vachel Lindsay

Quoted from memory, of course. [Wink]