Circles: A Mathematical View (Spectrum)

Pedoe, Dan

ISBN 10: 0883855186 / ISBN 13: 9780883855188

Published by The Mathematical Association of America, Washington, D.C., 1997

About this Item

Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is gently creased; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Blue wrapper with blue and white lettering. 102 historical and informative pages! "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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Circles: A Mathematical View (Spectrum)
• Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America, Washington, D.C.
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0883855186
• ISBN 13: 9780883855188
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 10 ounces

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Synopsis

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.

Book Description

Armed with paper, pencil, compass, and straightedge, readers of Circles will find great pleasure in following the constructions and theorems, not only from ancient Greece, but also interesting results which were only discovered in modern times. Novices and experts alike will find much to enlighten them in this mathematical classic.