Geometry civilized : history, culture, and technique
"This lavishly illustrated book provides an unusually accessible approach to geometry by placing it in historical context. With concise discussions and carefully chosen illustrations the author brings the material to life by showing what problems motivated early geometers throughout the world. Geometry Civilized covers classical plane geometry, emphasizing the methods of Euclid but also drawing on advances made in China and India. It includes a wide range of problems, solutions, and illustrations, as well as a chapter on trigonometry, and prepares its readers for the study of solid geometry and conic sections."--Publisher
Print Book, English, 2000
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2000
History
viii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780198500780, 9780198506904, 0198500785, 0198506902
47170461
Preface. 1: An old story. 1.1: Euclid and his modern rivals. 1.2: Geometry in and as culture. 1.3: No royal road. 2: From points to proof. 2.1: Necessary ingredients. 2.2: The size of the Earth. 2.3: The point of proof. 2.4: Exercises. 3: Tricks with triangles. 3.1: Bridge of asses. 3.2: Practice. 3.3: Similarity. 3.4: Deception. 3.5: Exercises. 4: Many cheerful facts about the square of the hypoteneuse. 4.1: The Theorem of Pythagoras. 4.2: The Chinese Pythagoras. 4.3: More trigonometry. 4.4: Exercises
"Reprinted new as paperback (with corrections) 2000"--Title page verso