Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world / / Benjamin Wardhaugh |
Autore | Wardhaugh Benjamin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) : 34 b/w illus |
Disciplina | 516.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Geometry
Mathematics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Early works. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Alfred North Whitehead
Baruch Spinoza Bodleian Library Copernicus Edna St. Vincent Millay Euclidean geometry Galileo Galilei Galileo Hobbes Johannes Kepler Kepler Platonic solids Proclus Ptolemaic Egypt Pythagorean theorem Spinoza Thales' theorem Thomas Hobbes Vatican Library book history geometric algebra golden ratio great books history of math history of mathematics history of the book lemma logic mathematical proofs music theory parallel postulate perspective plane geometry prime numbers |
ISBN | 0-691-21981-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- I: AUTHOR -- Alexandria -- Elephantine -- Hypsicles -- Theon of Alexandria -- Stephanos the scribe -- Al-Hajjaj -- Adelard -- Erhard Ratdolt -- Marget Seymer her hand -- Edward Bernard -- Interlude -- II: SAGE -- Plato -- Proclus Diadochus -- Hroswitha of Gandersheim -- Rabbi Levi ben Gershom -- Christoph Clavius -- Xu Guangqi -- Blame not our author -- Baruch Spinoza -- Anne Lister -- Interlude -- III: HERO -- Petechonsis -- Dividing the monochord -- Hyginus -- Muhammad Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani -- Lady Geometria -- Piero della Francesca -- Euclid Speidell -- Isaac Newton -- Interlude -- IV: SHADOW AND MASK -- Mary Fairfax -- François Peyrard -- Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii -- Maggie and Tom -- Simson in Urdu -- His modern rivals -- Thomas Little Heath -- Max Ernst -- Euclidean designs -- Lambda -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Image Credits -- Notes on Sources -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554265903321 |
Wardhaugh Benjamin | ||
Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Groups and Symmetry : Theory and Applications / Bijan Davvaz |
Autore | Davvaz, Bijan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore, : Springer, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | xv, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Soggetto topico | 20-XX - Group theory and generalizations [MSC 2020] |
Soggetto non controllato |
Characters of groups
Free groups Frieze and wallpaper symmetry groups Group actions on sets Linear groups Linear transformations Normal series Platonic solids Product of groups Simple groups Sylow's theorem Symmetry groups |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN0275460 |
Davvaz, Bijan | ||
Singapore, : Springer, 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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Groups and Symmetry : Theory and Applications / Bijan Davvaz |
Autore | Davvaz, Bijan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore, : Springer, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | xv, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Soggetto topico | 20-XX - Group theory and generalizations [MSC 2020] |
Soggetto non controllato |
Characters of groups
Free groups Frieze and wallpaper symmetry groups Group actions on sets Linear groups Linear transformations Normal series Platonic solids Product of groups Simple groups Sylow's theorem Symmetry groups |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN00275460 |
Davvaz, Bijan | ||
Singapore, : Springer, 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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