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The Changing Shape of Geometry: Celebrating a Century of Geometry and Geometry Teaching
How the publisher describes it:
“Celebrating a century of geometry and geometry teaching, this book will give the reader an enjoyable insight into all things geometrical. There are a wealth of popular articles including sections on Pythagoras, the golden ratio and recreational geometry. Historical items, drawn principally from the Mathematical Gazette, are authored by mathematicians such as G. H. Hardy, Rouse Ball, Thomas Heath and Bertrand Russell as well as some more recent expositors. Thirty 'Desert Island Theorems' from distinguished mathematicians and educationalists give light to some surprising and beautiful results.”
Review by Jill Russell
In brief:
This book is a mine of beautiful results to be dipped into and savoured. I hope it can find a place in college reference collections. Our budding mathematicians and maths teachers need to know about the wealth of geometric history and proof that is part of our heritage.
“For those of us who think that proof is important, here are proofs of every flavour.”
This collection of popular and historical articles, celebrating a century of geometry and geometry teaching, hold something for anyone who has ever felt thrilled by a geometric result. For those of us who think that proof is important, here are proofs of every flavour. For those of us who can only name one theorem, there are nearly fifty pages on Pythagoras, including algebraic and geometric proofs, an inside-out version and journeys into higher dimensions.
Here the great and the good (mathematicians) choose their desert island theorems. Can you resist the Eyeball Theorem, or the Indian Square Root Algorithm - based on sacrificial altars? Do you know how to construct the little Napoleon circumcircle or a Supergolden Rectangle?
This book is a mine of beautiful results to be dipped into and savoured. I hope it can find a place in college reference collections. Our budding mathematicians and maths teachers need to know about the wealth of geometric history and proof that is part of our heritage.
Jill Russell • Supply teacher in Kent
Paperback: 557 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (9 Jan 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0521531624
ISBN-13: 978-0521531627
Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17.2 x 2.6 cm
