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

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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Dolciani mathematical expositions ; no. 45
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Physical Description:xvii, 327 p. :; ill., ports.
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Table of 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.