The facts on file geometry handbook. / Catherine A. Gorini.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Facts on File, c2003.Description: viii, 280 p. : ill. 24 cmISBN:- 081604875-4
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Reference | Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Reference | QA 445.2 .G676 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 3AEA0000276600 |
Contains approximately 3,000 entries accompanied by labeled diagrams to help clarify meanings of terms. Includes biographies of more than 300 scientists and mathematicians from ancient times to the present whose discoveries have contributed to the understanding and appreciation of geometry. Cites significant events like Thales's prediction of a solar eclipse using mathematical methods, John Napier's announcement of logarithms, Johan Lumbert's proof that pi is irrational, Albert Enstein's formulation of his theory of relativity, Buckminster Fuller's invention of geodesic dome, James Gleick's publication of Chaos:Making a New Science, etc.
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