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  • Exploring Classical Greek Construction Problems with Interactive Geometry Software

    by Ad Meskens, Paul Tytgat ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    In this book the classical Greek construction problems are explored in a didactical, enquiry based fashion using Interactive Geometry Software (IGS). The book traces the history of these problems, stating them in modern terminology. By focusing on constructions and the use of IGS the reader is confronted with the same problems that ancient mathematicians once faced. The reader can step into the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Practical mathematics in a commercial metropolis

    Mathematical life in late 16th century Antwerp

    by Ad Meskens ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Describes the development and the ultimate demise of the practice of mathematics in sixteenth century Antwerp. Against the background of the violent history of the Religious Wars the story of the practice of mathematics in Antwerp is told through the lives of two protagonists Michiel Coignet and Peeter Heyns. The book touches on all aspects of practical mathematics from teaching and instrument ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • The Secret Lives of Buildings

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  • Four Walls and a Roof

    The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

    by Reinier de Graaf ...
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  • A Certain Ambiguity

    A Mathematical Novel (New in Paper)

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    While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief ... Read more

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  • Heavenly Mathematics

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  • Beautiful Geometry

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    Geometry Takes Shape

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