Geometry Civilized: History, Culture and Technique - Hardcover

Heilbron, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198500785 ISBN 13: 9780198500780

Verlag: Clarendon Press, 1998

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Book by Heilbron J L

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Reseña del editor:

This text provides an unusual approach to the teaching and learning of geometry. Placing the subject in a wide general context Heilbron combines history and science. A cross-cultural examination of topics are given in this book. It covers classical plane geometry, emphasizing the methods of Euclid but also drawing on the different and often effective approaches of the Chinese and Indians. Applications as well as theories are considered, and the book offers a wide range of problems, solutions, and illustrations. A chapter on trigonometry is included, and the material covered prepares the way for study of solid geometry and conic sections.

Biografía del autor:

John Heilbron is Emeritus Professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written nearly 20 books, including The Sun in the Church (Harvard, 1998), and he is the editor of the Oxford Companion to the History of Science and its Uses.

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• Verlag: Clarendon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0198500785
• ISBN 13: 9780198500780
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320