Regular Polytopes (Dover Books on MaTHEMA 1.4tics) - Softcover

Coxeter, H.S.M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486614808 ISBN 13: 9780486614809

Verlag: Dover Publications Inc, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

RO60076534. REGULAR POLYTOPES. 1973. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement pliée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 321 pages. Figure en noir et blanc en frontispice. Illustré de nombreuses figures en noir et blanc dans et hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

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Reseña del editor:

Foremost book available on polytopes, incorporating ancient Greek and most modern work done on them. Beginning with polygons and polyhedrons, the book moves on to multi-dimensional polytopes in a way that anyone with a basic knowledge of geometry and trigonometry can easily understand. Definitions of symbols. Eight tables plus many diagrams and examples. 1963 edition.

Biografía del autor:

H. S. M. Coxeter: Through the Looking Glass
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907–2003) is one of the greatest geometers of the last century, or of any century, for that matter. Coxeter was associated with the University of Toronto for sixty years, the author of twelve books regarded as classics in their field, a student of Hermann Weyl in the 1930s, and a colleague of the intriguing Dutch artist and printmaker Maurits Escher in the 1950s.
In the Author's Own Words:
"I'm a Platonist — a follower of Plato — who believes that one didn't invent these sorts of things, that one discovers them. In a sense, all these mathematical facts are right there waiting to be discovered."
"In our times, geometers are still exploring those new Wonderlands, partly for the sake of their applications to cosmology and other branches of science, but much more for the sheer joy of passing through the looking glass into a land where the familiar lines, planes, triangles, circles, and spheres are seen to behave in strange but precisely determined ways."
"Geometry is perhaps the most elementary of the sciences that enable man, by purely intellectual processes, to make predictions (based on observation) about the physical world. The power of geometry, in the sense of accuracy and utility of these deductions, is impressive, and has been a powerful motivation for the study of logic in geometry."
"Let us revisit Euclid. Let us discover for ourselves a few of the newer results. Perhaps we may be able to recapture some of the wonder and awe that our first contact with geometry aroused." — H. S. M. Coxeter

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• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0486614808
• ISBN 13: 9780486614809
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 321