Title: Vastly Over Rated by Others
Review: I own the 1974 edition of this book and do not understand why the other reviewers gave it five stars. The main flaw with this book, which is strange for a geometry text, is that it is not logically structured. A book on plane geometry should start with a numbered list of all the definitions, common notions, and postulates. From there it should go in sequence from the simplest to more complex theorems, one building on the other. The proofs should then refer to these numbered principles.The author does not do any of this, instead he scatters the basic concepts all over the place. In addition many of the exercises are simple minded.My advice is to go back to the original: "Euclid's Elements" as translated by Thomas Heath. This is truly the most outstanding work of Western Civilization. It is far superior to this book.
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