The Wonder Book of Geometry
The Wonder Book of Geometry
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9780198846383 |
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Hardback |
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14 Jan 2021 |
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$33.99 NZD
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David Acheson takes the reader on a highly illustrated tour through the history of geometry, from ancient Greece to the present day. He emphasizes throughout elegant deduction and practical applications, and argues that geometry can offer the quickest route to the whole spirit of mathematics at its best. Along the way, we encounter the quirky and the unexpected, meet the great personalities involved, and uncover some of the loveliest surprises in mathematics.
Contents
2: Getting Started
3: Euclid's Elements
4: Thales' Theorem
5: Geometry in Action
6: Pythagoras' Theorem
7: 'In Love with Geometry'?
8: 'Imagine my exultation, Watson...'
9: Congruence and Similarity
10: Conversely...
11: Circle Theorems
12: Off at a Tangent
13: From Tangents to Supersonic Flow
14: What is pi, exactly?
15: The Story of the Ellipse
16: Geometry by Coordinates
17: Geometry and Calculus
18: A Royal Road to Geometry?
19: Unexpected Meetings
20: Ceva's Theorem
21: A Kind of Symmetry
22: 'Pyracy' in Woolwich?
23: Fermat's Problem
24: A Soap Solution
25: Geometry in 'The Ladies' Diary'
26: What Euclid Did
27: Euclid on Parallel Lines
28: 'A New Theory of Parallels'?
29: Anti-Euclid?
30: When Geometry Goes Wrong...
31: New Angles on Geometry
32: And Finally...
Authors
David Acheson , Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, University of Oxford
David Acheson is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and the University's first winner of a National Teaching Fellowship, in 2004. He was President of the Mathematical Association from 2010 to 2011, and now lectures widely on mathematics to young people and the general public. In 2013, Acheson was awarded an Honorary D.Sc. by the University of East Anglia for his outstanding work in the popularisation of mathematics. His books include 1089 and All That (OUP, 2002), and The Calculus Story, (OUP, 2017).