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Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry
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It would take most people just a few milliseconds to recognize that the butterfly on the book's cover is asymmetric. Indeed, the claim that nature is symmetric, made in this book (and so often elsewhere - e.g., by Weyl) is manifestly false. (BTW: check the dimensions of Leonardo's so-called Vitruvian Man to discover - perhaps - the real Da Vinci code!... »
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What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math Adventure
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I teach high school math and read this book before vacation when the kids aren't keen on "doing math". They LOVE it, especially since they've been using the pythagorean theorem for years.... »
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The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History
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I loved e: the story of a number, both the story and the mathematics in it. But for some reason this book does not catch the same spirit. It doesn't have the exciting thread of a story that makes you want to turn to the next page, and the many different proofs make it feel like it's a patchwork of items forcing itself to support the topic rather than... »
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Sacred Geometry (Wooden Books)
This book is only 58 pages long so expect to have read it during breakfast , Im not sure about it, some interesting elements and ideas on tiling and how... »
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Schaum's Outline of Trigonometry
This book only presents the formulas and basic concepts of plane trigonometry, leaving the reader in the dark abouts its uses and what it really means.The... »
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The Joy of Pi
This book was fascinating, and I learned alot on pi day.
On march 14 (Pi day) I had memorized 50 digits, and wowed my classmates.
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Geometry
Order arrived 2 days later than expected, but I was very pleased with the price I paid and the book was in excellent condition... »
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The Works of Archimedes
Again I feel I must post a review to counter misleading
information in an earlier review. The author of the
previous review seems to think th... »
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