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Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text [...]
A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever writtenEuclid's Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads of mathematics-and of culture. Written around 300 BCE,...
The Geometry of Efficient Fair Division
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...
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography,...