|
 |
All orders
shipped by
airmail!
Click here for our
Shipping Policies!
| |
 | | |
"You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act."
- Barbara Hall,
A Summons to New Orleans,
2000
| | | |
|
ZIN Product Number: 10194064
| eBay (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 38 | | Price Range: | | $0.05 - 0.01 | | | | Craigslist (last 12 months) | | Classifieds: | | 21 | | Price Range: | | $0.07 - 0.04 | | | | Amazon Used (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 18 | | Price Range: | | $0.01 - 0.05 | | | | ZooScape (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 0 | | Price Range: | | N/A | | | | | | Google listings (non-affiliate) | | 27 | | MSN listings (non-affiliate) | | 27 | | Yahoo listings (non-affiliate) | | 51 | | |
| | 
| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691057540
Release Date: Jan 4, 2002
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Trigonometry has always been the black sheep of mathematics. Too advanced to be part of "elementary math," yet too elementary for the higher branches of the profession, it has been looked upon as a glorified form of geometry, complicated by tedious computation. Nothing could be further from the truth. Uniquely positioned as a meeting point between pure and applied mathematics, its rich history shows how different branches of science - among them geography, astronomy, physics, and even music - have influenced one another. In this book, Eli Maor rejects the usual arid descriptions of the sine and cosine functions and their trigonometric relatives. He brings the subject to life in a compelling blend of mathematics, history, and biography. From the "proto-trigonometry" of the Egyptian pyramid builders to Renaissance Europe's quest for more accurate artillery; from the earliest known trigonometric table, carved on a clay tablet by an unknown Babylonian scholar, to Fourier's famous theorem, which finally explained the source of musical harmony, here is a rich tapestry of almost four thousand years of trigonometric history.
| |  | | |
 | | | | | Be the first to rate this book! Number of Reviews: 0
| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
A dry, boring, and glorified form of geometry? A math genius brings trigonometry to the masses
| |  | | | | Preface | | | Prologue: Ahmes the Scribe, 1650 B.C. | 3 | | Recreational Mathematics in Ancient Egypt | 11 | | 1 | Angles | 15 | | 2 | Chords | 20 | | Plimpton 322: The Earliest Trigonometric Table? | 30 | | 3 | Six Functions Come of Age | 35 | | Johann Muller alias Regiomonianus | 41 | | 4 | Trigonometry Becomes Analytic | 50 | | Francois Viete | 56 | | 5 | Measuring Heaven and Earth | 63 | | Abraham De Moivre | 80 | | 6 | Two Theorems from Geometry | 87 | | 7 | Epicycloids and Hypocycloids | 95 | | Maria Agnesi and Her "Witch" | 108 | | 8 | Variations on a Theme by Gauss | 112 | | 9 | Had Zeno Only Known This! | 117 | | 10 | (sin x) / x | 129 | | 11 | A Remarkable Formula | 139 | | Jules Lissajous and His Figures | 145 | | 12 | tan x | 150 | | 13 | A Mapmaker's Paradise | 165 | | 14 | sin x = 2: Imaginary Trigonometry | 181 | | Edmund Landau: The Master Rigorist | 192 | | 15 | Fourier's Theorem | 198 | | Appendixes | 211 | | 1 | Let's Revive an Old Idea | 213 | | 2 | Barrow's Integration of sec [phi] | 218 | | 3 | Some Trigonometric Gems | 220 | | 4 | Some Special Values of sin [alpha] | 222 | | Bibliography | 225 | | Credits for Illustrations | 229 | | Index | 231 |
| |  | | | Find similiar books in these subject areas:
All Topics > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Mathematics > Trigonometry
All Topics > Science > Mathematics > History
All Topics > Science > Mathematics > Trigonometry
| | | | These specific items are very similiar:
Trigonometric Delights , by Eli Maor
| | | | | | People like you also bought:
To Infinity and Beyond, by Eli Maor
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of Minus One, by Paul J. Nahin
Unknown Title
Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics, by William W. Dunham
The Joy of Pi, by David Blatner
E, by Eli Maor
June 8, 2004--Venus in Transit, by Eli Maor
| | | | | | Keywords
Trigonometry, Trigonometry, Trigonometry, Mathematics, History & Philosophy
| |
| |
| | | |
Make $1 per sale -
Link to ZooScape.com! | |
