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"...a fascinating compilation of articles...This is a book that will appeal to a broad range of readers, including students and teachers of mathematics, mathematical amateurs, and active researchers. In short, this is a serious candidate for your 'desert island book'." Mathematical Reviews
"This book is a source of intellectual delight and can easily be dipped into during one's leisure moments ... Allowed to browse, the curious young person will surely find much here to read with delight." American Scientish
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Celebrating a century of geometry and geometry teaching, this volume includes popular articles on Pythagoras, the golden ratio and recreational geometry. Thirty "Desert Island Theorems" from distinguished mathematicians and educators disclose surprising results. (Contributors include a Nobel Laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner.) Co-published with The Mathematical Association of America.
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"...a fascinating compilation of articles...This is a book that will appeal to a broad range of readers, including students and teachers of mathematics, mathematical amateurs, and active researchers. In short, this is a serious candidate for your 'desert island book'." Mathematical Reviews
"This book is a source of intellectual delight and can easily be dipped into during one's leisure moments ... Allowed to browse, the curious young person will surely find much here to read with delight." American Scientish
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Celebrating a century of geometry and geometry teaching, this volume includes popular articles on Pythagoras, the golden ratio and recreational geometry. Thirty "Desert Island Theorems" from distinguished mathematicians and educators disclose surprising results. (Contributors include a Nobel Laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner.) Co-published with The Mathematical Association of America.
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I have put the title of my address in the form of a definite question, to which I propose to return an equally definite answer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
recreational geometry, right trominoes, island theorems, sphinx pieces, given rectilineal figure, geometry teaching, spherical lunes, mathematics syllabuses, geometrical teaching, colour theorem, polar reciprocals, geometry curriculum, deductive geometry, infinitesimal geometry, cyclic quadrilateral, four replicas, anharmonic ratio, alternating knots, regular dodecagon, higher geometry, parabolic segment, mathematical teaching, geometrical work, cosine rule,
I have put the title of my address in the form of a definite question, to which I propose to return an equally definite answer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
recreational geometry, right trominoes, island theorems, sphinx pieces, given rectilineal figure, geometry teaching, spherical lunes, mathematics syllabuses, geometrical teaching, colour theorem, polar reciprocals, geometry curriculum, deductive geometry, infinitesimal geometry, cyclic quadrilateral, four replicas, anharmonic ratio, alternating knots, regular dodecagon, higher geometry, parabolic segment, mathematical teaching, geometrical work, cosine rule,