Beautiful geometry
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- ISBN: 9780691150994 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0691150990 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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Physical Description:
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x, 187 p.: ill. (some color) ; 25 cm. - Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-184) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prefaces -- 1. Thales of Miletus -- 2. Triangles of equal area -- 3. Quadrilaterals -- 4. Perfect numbers and triangular numbers -- 5. The Pythagorean Theorem I -- 6. The Pythagorean Theorem II -- 7. Pythagorean triples -- 8. The square root of 2 -- 9. A repertoire of means -- 10. More about means -- 11. Two theorems of euclid -- 12. Different, yet the same -- 13. One theorem, three proofs -- 14. The prime numbers -- 15. Two prime numbers -- 16. 0.999...= -- 17. Eleven -- 18. Euclidean constructions -- 19. Hexagons -- 20. Fibonacci numbers -- 21. The golden ratio -- 22. The pentagon -- 23. The 17-sided regular polygon -- 24. Fifty -- 25. Doubling the cube -- 26. Squaring the circle -- 27. Archimedes measures the circle -- 28. The digit hunters -- 29. Conics -- 30. 3/3=4/4 -- 31. The harmonic series -- 32. Ceva's theorem -- 33. e -- 34. Spira Mirabilis -- 35. The cylcloid -- 36. Epicycloids and hypocycloids -- 37. The euler line -- 38. Inversion -- 39. Steiner's porism -- 40. Line designs -- 41. The French connection -- 42. The audible made visible -- 43. Lissajous figures -- 44. Symmetry I -- 45. Symmetry II -- 46. The Reuleaux triangle -- 47. Pick's theorem -- 48. The snowflake curve -- 50. Sierpinski's triangle -- 51. Beyond indinity -- Appendix: Proofs of selected theorems mentioned in this book -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Subject: | Geometry -- History Geometry -- History -- Pictorial works Geometry in art |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Lansdowne Library | QA 447 M37 2014 (Text) | 26040002999726 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |