Icons of mathematics [electronic resource] : an exploration of twenty key images / Claudi Alsina, Roger B. Nelsen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Dolciani mathematical expositions ; no. 45Publication details: [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, c2011.Description: xvii, 327 p. : ill., portsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 516.2/04 23
LOC classification:
  • QA466 .A47 2011eb
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Contents:
The bride's chair -- Zhou Bi Suan Jing -- Garfield's trapezoid -- The semicircle -- Similar figures -- Cevians -- The 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 -- The rectangular hyperbola -- Tiling -- Solutions to the challenges.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-319) and index.

The bride's chair -- Zhou Bi Suan Jing -- Garfield's trapezoid -- The semicircle -- Similar figures -- Cevians -- The 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 -- The rectangular hyperbola -- Tiling -- Solutions to the challenges.

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