Geometry : understanding shapes and sizes
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- ISBN: 9781627951388
- ISBN: 1627951385
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184 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm. - Publisher: New York : Shelter Harbor Press, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
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Formatted Contents Note: | The roots of geometry -- Circles and spheres -- Spirals -- The mathematics of beauty -- The shapes of perfection -- Secrets of the cone -- Euclid's revolution -- Eratosthenes measures the earth -- Archimedes applies geometry -- Triangles and geometry -- Three impossible geometric puzzles -- Tiling and tessellations -- Perspective -- Flat maps of a round world -- Filling space -- Geometry + algebra -- The geometry of architecture -- Prince Rupert's challenge -- Higher dimensions -- Topology -- Fitting circles into triangles -- Non-Euclidean geometry -- Crystals -- The four-color problem -- The roundness of rollers -- Knots -- The Poincaré conjecture -- The geometry of space and time -- Fractals -- Unknown geometry. |
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Subject: | Geometry Juvenile literature Mathematics Juvenile literature Geometry Mathematics |
Genre: | Juvenile works. |
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