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The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry - David Wells

Description: Author: David Wells / Genre: Science / Nature / A companion volume to the author's Dictionary of Curious and ... more

The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry - David Wells ... Interesting Numbers, which focuses on arithmetic and number theory. The entries in this book cover curves, topology, tilings and all branches of plane and three-dimensional geometry, from Euclid to fractals.

Newest Review: ... to the eye even when it baffles the brain. If this book is more expensive than its prequel, that's because it needs to ... more

... be: it's a paperback, but a large one, to accommodate the illustrations. Fortunately plenty of them appeal to the eye without baffling the brain, like the absurdly simple yet mindstretching Koch snowflake. Take a triangle and divide each side into thirds. Erect another triangle on each middle third. Take the two outward-facing sides of each new triangle and do the same to them. Then repeat. And repeat. For ever. The result is a shape with a finite area enclosed by an infinite perimeter, and it is in fact a very e...more

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The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry - David Wells: Know Your Limaçons (399 words)
by - written on 06/08/01 (Very useful, 44 readings)
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Mathematics is an ocean in which a child can paddle and an elephant can swim. Or a whale, indeed. This book, a sequel to Wells' excellent Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Mathematics, is suitable for both paddlers and plungers. Plumbers, even, because you can dive into some very deep mathematics here. Far too deep for me, I have to admit, but I can wade a little way into the shallows and enjoy looking further out at what I don't understand, because the advantage of geometry over number theory is that it can appeal to the eye even when it baffles the brain. If this book is more expensive than its prequel, that's because it needs to be: ... Read the complete review