Encounters With Euclid
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Encounters With Euclid
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Author : Benjamin Wardhaugh
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-06
Encounters With Euclid written by Benjamin Wardhaugh and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with Mathematics categories.
In this lively and informative book, Benjamin Wardhaugh explains how Euclid's text journeyed from antiquity to the Renaissance, introducing some of the many readers, copyists, and editors who left their mark on the Elements before handing it on. He shows how some read the book as a work of philosophy, while others viewed it as a practical guide to life. He examines the many different contexts in which Euclid's book and his geometry were put to use, from the Neoplatonic school at Athens and the artisans' studios of medieval Baghdad to the Jesuit mission in China and the workshops of Restoration London. Wardhaugh shows how the Elements inspired ideas in theology, art, and music, and how the book has acquired new relevance to the strange geometries of dark matter and curved space.
Encounters With Euclid
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Author : Benjamin Wardhaugh
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-14
Encounters With Euclid written by Benjamin Wardhaugh and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-14 with Mathematics categories.
A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever written Euclid's Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads of mathematics—and of culture. Written around 300 BCE, it has traveled widely across the centuries, generating countless new ideas and inspiring such figures as Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein. Encounters with Euclid tells the story of this incomparable mathematical masterpiece, taking readers from its origins in the ancient world to its continuing influence today. In this lively and informative book, Benjamin Wardhaugh explains how Euclid’s text journeyed from antiquity to the Renaissance, introducing some of the many readers, copyists, and editors who left their mark on the Elements before handing it on. He shows how some read the book as a work of philosophy, while others viewed it as a practical guide to life. He examines the many different contexts in which Euclid's book and his geometry were put to use, from the Neoplatonic school at Athens and the artisans' studios of medieval Baghdad to the Jesuit mission in China and the workshops of Restoration London. Wardhaugh shows how the Elements inspired ideas in theology, art, and music, and how the book has acquired new relevance to the strange geometries of dark matter and curved space. Encounters with Euclid traces the life and afterlives of one of the most remarkable works of mathematics ever written, revealing its lasting role in the timeless search for order and reason in an unruly world.
Proofs From The Book
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Author : Martin Aigner
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-04-17
Proofs From The Book written by Martin Aigner and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-17 with Mathematics categories.
The (mathematical) heroes of this book are "perfect proofs": brilliant ideas, clever connections and wonderful observations that bring new insight and surprising perspectives on basic and challenging problems from Number Theory, Geometry, Analysis, Combinatorics, and Graph Theory. Thirty beautiful examples are presented here. They are candidates for The Book in which God records the perfect proofs - according to the late Paul Erdös, who himself suggested many of the topics in this collection. The result is a book which will be fun for everybody with an interest in mathematics, requiring only a very modest (undergraduate) mathematical background. For this revised and expanded second edition several chapters have been revised and expanded, and three new chapters have been added.
Seminar On Minimal Submanifolds Am 103 Volume 103
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Author : Enrico Bombieri
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-02
Seminar On Minimal Submanifolds Am 103 Volume 103 written by Enrico Bombieri and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-02 with Mathematics categories.
A classic treatment of minimal submanifolds from the acclaimed Annals of Mathematics Studies series Princeton University Press is proud to have published the Annals of Mathematics Studies since 1940. One of the oldest and most respected series in science publishing, it has included many of the most important and influential mathematical works of the twentieth century. The series continues this tradition as Princeton University Press publishes the major works of the twenty-first century. To mark the continued success of the series, all books are available in paperback and as ebooks.
Imagined Civilizations
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Author : Roger Hart
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2013-08-15
Imagined Civilizations written by Roger Hart and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-15 with Mathematics categories.
Roger Hart debunks the long-held belief that linear algebra developed independently in the West. Accounts of the seventeenth-century Jesuit Mission to China have often celebrated it as the great encounter of two civilizations. The Jesuits portrayed themselves as wise men from the West who used mathematics and science in service of their mission. Chinese literati-official Xu Guangqi (1562–1633), who collaborated with the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) to translate Euclid’s Elements into Chinese, reportedly recognized the superiority of Western mathematics and science and converted to Christianity. Most narratives relegate Xu and the Chinese to subsidiary roles as the Jesuits' translators, followers, and converts. Imagined Civilizations tells the story from the Chinese point of view. Using Chinese primary sources, Roger Hart focuses in particular on Xu, who was in a position of considerable power over Ricci. The result is a perspective startlingly different from that found in previous studies. Hart analyzes Chinese mathematical treatises of the period, revealing that Xu and his collaborators could not have believed their declaration of the superiority of Western mathematics. Imagined Civilizations explains how Xu’s West served as a crucial resource. While the Jesuits claimed Xu as a convert, he presented the Jesuits as men from afar who had traveled from the West to China to serve the emperor.
The Book Of Wonders
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Author : Benjamin Wardhaugh
language : en
Publisher: William Collins
Release Date : 2020-08-20
The Book Of Wonders written by Benjamin Wardhaugh and has been published by William Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-20 with categories.
Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the world's first textbook - shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths. Thirteen volumes of mathematical definitions, propositions and proofs. Writing in 300 BC, Euclid could not have known his logic would go unsurpassed until the nineteenth century, or that his writings were laying down the very foundations of human knowledge. Wardhaugh blasts the dust from Euclid's legacy to offer not only a vibrant history of mathematics, told through people and invention, but also a broader story of culture. Telling stories from every continent, ranging between Ptolemy and Isaac Newton, Hobbes and Lewis Carrol, this is a history that dives from Ancient Greece to medieval Byzantium, early modern China, Renaissance Italy, the age of European empires, and our world today. How has geometry sat at the beating heart of sculpture, literature, music and thought? How can one unknowable figure of antiquity live through two millennia?
Mathematical Encounters And Pedagogical Detours
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Author : Boris Koichu
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-02-04
Mathematical Encounters And Pedagogical Detours written by Boris Koichu and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-04 with Education categories.
This book explores the idea that mathematics educators and teachers are also problem solvers and learners, and as such they constantly experience mathematical and pedagogical disturbances. Accordingly, many original tasks and learning activities are results of personal mathematical and pedagogical disturbances of their designers, who then transpose these disturbances into learning opportunities for their students. This learning-transposition process is a cornerstone of mathematics teacher education as a lived, developing enterprise. Mathematical Encounters and Pedagogical Detours unfold the process and illustrate it by various examples. The book engages readers in original tasks, shares the results of task implementation and describes how these results inform the development of new tasks, which often intertwine mathematics and pedagogy. Most importantly, the book includes a dialogue between the authors based on the stories of their own learning, which triggers continuous exploration of learning opportunities for their students.
History Of Analytic Geometry
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Author : Carl B. Boyer
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-06-28
History Of Analytic Geometry written by Carl B. Boyer and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-28 with Mathematics categories.
This study presents the concepts and contributions from before the Alexandrian Age through to Fermat and Descartes, and on through Newton and Euler to the "Golden Age," from 1789 to 1850. 1956 edition. Analytical bibliography. Index.
Curvature And Betti Numbers Am 32 Volume 32
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Author : Salomon Bochner Trust
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-02
Curvature And Betti Numbers Am 32 Volume 32 written by Salomon Bochner Trust and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-02 with Mathematics categories.
The description for this book, Curvature and Betti Numbers. (AM-32), Volume 32, will be forthcoming.
Euclid In The Rainforest
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Author : Joseph Mazur
language : en
Publisher: Pi Press
Release Date : 2005-07-01
Euclid In The Rainforest written by Joseph Mazur and has been published by Pi Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-01 with Mathematics categories.