| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 327 pages) : illustrations, portraits. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Dolciani mathematical expositions ; no. 45
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Dolciani mathematical expositions ; no. 45.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-319) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Certain geometric diagrams play a crucial role in visualizing mathematical proofs. Twenty of these icons of mathematics are presented in this book, where the authors explore the mathematics within them and the mathematics that can be created from them. A chapter is devoted to each icon, illustrating its presence in real life, its primary mathematical characteristics and how it plays a central role in visual proofs of a wide range of mathematical facts. Among these are classical results from plane geometry, properties of the integers, means and inequalities, trigonometric identities, theorems from calculus and puzzles from recreational mathematics. Each chapter concludes with a selection of challenges for the reader to explore further properties and applications of the icon. Those teaching undergraduate mathematics will find material here for problem solving sessions, as well as enrichment material for courses on proofs and mathematical reasoning. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Geometry -- Famous problems.
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Geometry -- Famous problems. |
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Geometrical constructions.
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Geometrical constructions. |
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Generation of geometric forms.
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Generation of geometric forms. |
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Proof theory.
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Proof theory. |
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Mathematical notation.
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Mathematical notation. |
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Geometrical drawing.
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Geometrical drawing. |
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Geometry, Plane.
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Geometry, Plane. |
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Information visualization.
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Information visualization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Nelsen, Roger B., author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Alsina, Claudi. Icons of mathematics. [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, ©2011 9780883853528 (DLC) 2011923441 (OCoLC)744299157 |
| ISBN |
9780883859865 (electronic book) |
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0883859866 (electronic book) |
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9780883853528 (cloth) |
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0883853523 (cloth) |
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