Euclid and His Modern RivalsCourier Corporation, 5. mars 2014 - 320 sider The author of Alice in Wonderland (and an Oxford professor of mathematics) employs the fanciful format of a play set in Hell to take a hard look at late-19th-century interpretations of Euclidean geometry. Carroll's penetrating observations on geometry are accompanied by ample doses of his famous wit. 1885 edition. |
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... pp. 100 104) the real projec- tive plane is represented as a "Purse of Fortunatus" made by sewing together three square handkerchiefs. The same easy style and fertile imagination, applied to the H. S. M. COXETER. vii.
... pp. 100 104) the real projec- tive plane is represented as a "Purse of Fortunatus" made by sewing together three square handkerchiefs. The same easy style and fertile imagination, applied to the H. S. M. COXETER. vii.
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... plane, would surely have produced a thrilling exploration of this new Wonderland. H. S. M. COXETER Toronto, Canada March, 1973 PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. THE only new features, worth mentioning, viii INTRODUCTION TO THE DOVER EDITION.
... plane, would surely have produced a thrilling exploration of this new Wonderland. H. S. M. COXETER Toronto, Canada March, 1973 PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. THE only new features, worth mentioning, viii INTRODUCTION TO THE DOVER EDITION.
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Lewis Carroll. and what the Association have published in their ' Syllabus of Plane Geometry.' Euc. I think they have overlooked the fact that they are enacting many more sequences, as binding on writers, than the one logical sequence ...
Lewis Carroll. and what the Association have published in their ' Syllabus of Plane Geometry.' Euc. I think they have overlooked the fact that they are enacting many more sequences, as binding on writers, than the one logical sequence ...
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