082452
Mathematical Association of America
1983
14×21,5
meki
270
engleski
Price: 20,00 EUR
Dolciani Mathematical Expositions - No. 5. classroom, Howard Eves’ Great Moments in Mathematics Before 1650 would be a great addition to your bookshelf. The book consists of 20 chapters each dedicated to a “Great Moment in Mathematics”. These moments range from the origins of counting at the dawn of civilization to the invention of analytic geometry in 1637. Each moment is described in some detail and includes many interesting facts about the people involved. They are very readable accounts of the mathematics at a level that a good high school senior could understand. Each moment is accompanied by a comprehensive problem set. Many of the great moments relate to what is currently being taught in schools today. For example, there are chapters which focus on the origins of the Pythagorean Theorem, the creation of Euclid’s Elements, Ptolemy’s construction of a table of chords which led to what we know now as trigonometry, the development o
