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Trigonometric delights /
A fun, entertaining exploration of the ideas and people behind the growth of trigonometryTrigonometry has a reputation as a dry, difficult branch of mathematics, a glorified form of geometry complicated by tedious computation. In Trigonometric Delights, Eli Maor dispels this view. Rejecting the usua...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Princeton science library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue: Ahmes the Scribe, 1650 B.C.
- Recreational Mathematics in Ancient Egypt
- 1. Angles
- 2. Chords
- Plimpton 322: The Earliest Trigonometric Table?
- 3. Six Functions Come of Age
- Johann Müller, alias Regiomontanus
- 4. Trigonometry Becomes Analytic
- François Viète
- 5. Measuring Heaven and Earth
- Abraham De Moivre
- 6. Two Theorems from Geometry
- 7. Epicycloids and Hypocycloids
- Maria Agnesi and Her ""Witch
- 8. Variations on a Theme by Gauss
- 9. Had Zeno Only Known This!
- 10. (sin x)/x