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Circles: A Mathematical View (Spectrum)

By Dan Pedoe

Book information

Publisher
The Mathematical Association of America
Year
1997
ISBN
0883855186, 9780883855188
LCC
QA484 .P4 1995
Open Library ID
OL8191863M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5825443 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
137\141
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This revised edition of a mathematical classic originally published in 1957 will bring to a new generation of students the enjoyment of investigating that simplest of mathematical figures, the circle. The author has supplemented this new edition with a special chapter designed to introduce readers to the vocabulary of circle concepts with which the readers of two generations ago were familiar. Readers of Circles need only be armed with paper, pencil, compass, and straight edge to find great pleasure in following the constructions and theorems. Those who think that geometry using Euclidean tools died out with the ancient Greeks will be pleasantly surprised to learn many interesting results which were only discovered in modern times. Novices and experts alike will find much to enlighten them in chapters dealing with the representation of a circle by a point in three-space, a model for non-Euclidean geometry, and the isoperimetric property of the circle.

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