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Icons of mathematics : an exploration of twenty key images / Claudi Alsina, Roger B. Nelsen.

Author: Alsina, Claudi.

Imprint:[Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, c2011.

Descriptionxvii, 327 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Note:The bride's chair -- Zhou Bi Suan Jing -- Garfield's trapezoid -- The semicircle -- Similar figures -- Cevians -- The right triangle -- Napoleon's triangles -- Arcs and angles -- Polygons with circles -- Two circles -- Venn diagrams -- Overlapping figures -- Yin and yang -- Polygonal lines -- Star polygons -- Self-similar figures -- Tatami -- The rectangular hyperbola -- Tiling -- Solutions to the challenges.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-319) and index.

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Author:
Alsina, Claudi.
Series Statement
Dolciani mathematical expositions ; no. 45
Subject:
Geometry -- Famous problems.
Geometrical constructions.
Generation of geometric forms.
Proof theory.
Mathematical notation.
Geometrical drawing.
Geometry, Plane.
Visualization.
Contributor
Nelsen, Roger B.
Series Added Entry-Uniform title
Dolciani mathematical expositions no. 45.