Euclid's (real) Definition of Multiplication Revealed: Du'Oh! We were pranked!
OLD TEXT Stephen the Clerk for Arethas of Patras in Constantinople in 888 NEW TEXT Henry Mason, Oxford University, for Jonathan Crabtree

Euclid's (real) Definition of Multiplication Revealed: Du'Oh! We were pranked!

Jonathan J. Crabtree Jonathan J. Crabtree

Jonathan J. Crabtree

Founder and Head of Podometic Bharatiya Maths

发布日期: 2016年10月1日
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THE 446 YEAR OLD DEFINITION OF MULTIPLICATION... "to multiply a by integral b is to add a to itself b times" IS WRONG!

I've checked. (No wonder many kids don't like mathematics today!) Click the link below for the nitty gritty details.)

https://www.jonathancrabtree.com/euclid/elements_book_VII_definitions.html

For the past 446 years, many people in the West have been misled by the 'MIRA' multiplication myth, 'Multiplication Is Repeated Addition'. It is thought the Greek mathematician, Euclid of Alexandria, defined multiplication as repeated addition around 300 BCE, yet he didn't. Words such as 'add' and 'added' do not appear in any of Euclid's Book VII propositions reliant on a definition of multiplication. The Greek word συντεθ? in Euclid's definition was incorrectly translated in 1570, by Henry Billingsley, as 'added to itself' instead of 'placed together'. Read more via the link below...

P.S. Check out... "The Lost Logic of Elementary Mathematics" (Controversial Paper for Private Preview) 


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