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Trigonometry has always been the black sheep of mathematics. It has a reputation as a dry and difficult subject, a glorified form of geometry complicated by tedious computation. In this...

While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had...

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...

The first comprehensive, modern introduction to the theory of central simple algebras over arbitrary fields, this book starts from the basics and reaches such advanced results as the Merkurjev-Suslin theorem,...

Schemes in algebraic geometry can have singular points, whereas differential geometers typically focus on manifolds which are nonsingular. However, there is a class of schemes, 'C -schemes', which allow differential...

Mathematical superstar and inventor of fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot, has spent the past forty years studying the underlying mathematics of space and natural patterns. What many of his followers don't...

A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over them. Charles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant spirals, growing so exasperated that he once begged...

What's so funny about a trapezoid Plus, what is a trapezoid Cartoonist Larry Gonick unlocks the formula to understanding geometry in the latest entry in his New York Times bestselling...

The international bestseller - a whip-smart, entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world, from the author of How Not to Be Wrong How should a democracy choose its...

Author: Julius B. Barbanel (Union College, New York)Format: Hardback, 157mm x 235mm, 738g, 472 pagesPublished: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2005What is the best way to divide a 'cake' and...