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Measurement /
Explains how math should be done. With plain English and pictures, Lockhart makes complex ideas about shape and motion intuitive and graspable, and offers a solution to math phobia by introducing us to math as an artful way of thinking and living.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Reality and imagination
- On problems
- Part One. Size and Shape. In which we begin our investigation of abstract geometrical figures ; Symmetrical tiling and angle measurement ; Scaling and proportion ; Length, area, and volume ; The method of exhaustion and its consequences ; Polygons and trigonometry ; Conic sections and projective geometry ; Mechanical curves
- Part Two. Time and Space. Containing some thoughts on mathematical motion ; Coordinate systems and dimension ; Motion as a numerical relationship ; Vector representation and mechanical relativity ; The measurement of velocity ; The differential calculus and its myriad uses ; Some final words of encouragement to the reader
- Acknowledgments
- Index.