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The book begins with a historical overview of the long struggles with the parallel postulate in Euclidean geometry, [3] and of the foundational crisis of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, [6] Then, after reviewing background material in real analysis and computability theory, [1] the book concentrates on the reverse mathematics of theorems in real analysis, [3] including the Bolzano ...
EB Garamond is a free and open source implementation of Claude Garamond’s typeface, Garamond, and the matching Italic, Greek and Cyrillic characters designed by Robert Granjon. Its name is a shortening of Egenolff–Berner Garamond which refers to the fact that the letter forms are taken from the Egenolff–Berner specimen printed in 1592.
Algebra and Tiling: Homomorphisms in the Service of Geometry is a mathematics textbook on the use of group theory to answer questions about tessellations and higher dimensional honeycombs, partitions of the Euclidean plane or higher-dimensional spaces into congruent tiles.
Writer Alex Bellos described The Mathematics of Life as "a testament to the versatility of maths and how it is shaping our understanding of the world." [4] Kirkus Reviews called the book "an ingenious overview of biology with emphasis on mathematical ideas—stimulating but requiring careful reading despite the lack of equations."
1965. ISBN. 9780691024448. Polyominoes: Puzzles, Patterns, Problems, and Packings is a mathematics book on polyominoes, the shapes formed by connecting some number of unit squares edge-to-edge. It was written by Solomon Golomb, and is "universally regarded as a classic in recreational mathematics ". [1] The Basic Library List Committee of the ...
The Geometry of the Octonions. The Geometry of the Octonions is a mathematics book on the octonions, a system of numbers generalizing the complex numbers and quaternions, presenting its material at a level suitable for undergraduate mathematics students. It was written by Tevian Dray and Corinne Manogue, and published in 2015 by World Scientific.
The Math Book (Sterling Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4027-5796-9) is a book by American author Clifford A. Pickover.
Love and Math. Love and Math is a book about mathematics written by Edward Frenkel which was published in October 2013. [1] It was a New York Times bestseller, [2] and was the 2015 winner of the Euler Book Prize. [3] As of February 2016, it has been published in 16 languages.