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Author:   John Heilbron
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.912kg
ISBN:  

9780198500780

ISBN 10:   0198500785
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 May 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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John Heilbron is Emeritus Professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written nearly 20 books, including The Sun in the Church (Harvard, 1998), and he is the editor of the Oxford Companion to the History of Science and its Uses.

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