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Author Alsina, Claudi.

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

Imprint [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, c2011.

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Description xvii, 327 p. : ill., ports.
Series Dolciani mathematical expositions ; no. 45
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Geometry -- Famous problems.
Geometrical constructions.
Generation of geometric forms.
Proof theory.
Mathematical notation.
Geometrical drawing.
Geometry, Plane.
Visualization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Nelsen, Roger B.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780883853528 (hbk.)
0883853523 (hbk.)
9780883859865 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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