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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Side viii
... admit of any lightness of treatment — but I cannot recognise Geometry as one of them. Nevertheless it will, I trust, be found that I have permitted myself a glimpse of the comic side of things only at fitting seasons, when the tired ...
... admit of any lightness of treatment — but I cannot recognise Geometry as one of them. Nevertheless it will, I trust, be found that I have permitted myself a glimpse of the comic side of things only at fitting seasons, when the tired ...
Side 12
... are several other matters of so great importance, and admitting of so much variety of treatment, that it would be well to examine any method of dealing with them which differs much from mine — not 14 MINOS AND EUCLID. [ACT I.
... are several other matters of so great importance, and admitting of so much variety of treatment, that it would be well to examine any method of dealing with them which differs much from mine — not 14 MINOS AND EUCLID. [ACT I.
Side 20
... admits of easy proof that, if a Pair of Lines make, with a certain transversal, either (a) a pair of alternate angles equal, or (d) an exterior angle equal to the interior opposite angle on the same side of the transversal, or (c) a ...
... admits of easy proof that, if a Pair of Lines make, with a certain transversal, either (a) a pair of alternate angles equal, or (d) an exterior angle equal to the interior opposite angle on the same side of the transversal, or (c) a ...
Side 21
Lewis Carroll. Mm. A most convenient abridgment. Euc. Similarly, it admits of easy proof that, if a Pair of Lines make, with a certain transversal, either (a) a pair of alternate angles unequal, or (5) an exterior angle unequal to the ...
Lewis Carroll. Mm. A most convenient abridgment. Euc. Similarly, it admits of easy proof that, if a Pair of Lines make, with a certain transversal, either (a) a pair of alternate angles unequal, or (5) an exterior angle unequal to the ...
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