Book:David Acheson/The Wonder Book of Geometry
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David Acheson: The Wonder Book of Geometry
Published $\text {2020}$, Oxford
- ISBN 978-0-19-884638-3
Subject Matter
- An elementary survey of Euclidean Geometry.
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Getting Started
- 3 Euclid's Elements
- 4 Thales' Theorem
- 5 Geometry in Action
- 6 Pythagoras's Theorem
- 7 'In Love with Geometrie?'
- 8 'Imagine my Exultation, Watson'
- 9 Congruence and Similarity
- 10 Conversely ...
- 11 Circle Theorems
- 12 Off at a Tangent
- 13 From Tangents to Supersonic Flow
- 14 What is $\pi$, Exactly
- 15 The Story of the Ellipse
- 16 Geometry by Coordinates
- 17 Geometry and Calculus
- 18 A Royal Road to Geometry?
- 19 Unexpected Meetings
- 20 Ceva's Thoerem
- 21 A Kind of Symmetry
- 22 'Pyracy' in Woolwich?
- 23 Fermat's Problem
- 24 A Soap Solution
- 25 Geometry in The Ladies' Diary
- 26 What Euclid Did
- 27 Euclid on Parallel Lines
- 28 'A New Theory of Parallels'?
- 29 Anti-Euclid?
- 30 When Geometry Goes Wrong ...
- 31 New Angles on Geometry
- 32 And Finally ...
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Publisher's Acknowledgements
- Picture Credits
- Index
Critical View
- One of the best books ever.