Icons of mathematics

Alsina, Claudi.

Icons of mathematics an exploration of twenty key images / [electronic resource] : Claudi Alsina, Roger B. Nelsen. - [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, c2011. - xvii, 327 p. : ill., ports. - Dolciani mathematical expositions ; no. 45 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-319) and index.

bride's chair -- Zhou Bi Suan Jing -- Garfield's trapezoid -- semicircle -- Similar figures -- Cevians -- right triangle -- Napoleon's triangles -- Arcs and angles -- Polygons with circles -- Two circles -- Venn diagrams -- Overlapping figures -- Yin and yang -- Polygonal lines -- Star polygons -- Self-similar figures -- Tatami -- rectangular hyperbola -- Tiling -- Solutions to the challenges. The The The The


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Geometry--Famous problems.
Geometrical constructions.
Generation of geometric forms.
Proof theory.
Mathematical notation.
Geometrical drawing.
Geometry, Plane.
Visualization.


Electronic books.

QA466 / .A47 2011eb

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