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Icons of Mathematics: An Exploration of Twenty Key Images

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Claudi Alsina, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and Roger B. Nelsen, Lewis & Clark University

Publication: Dolciani Mathematical Expositions
Publication Year: 2011; Volume 45
ISBNs: 978-0-88385-352-8 (print); 978-0-88385-986-5 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9780883859865
MathSciNet review: 2816682
MSC: Primary 00A05; Secondary 00A08, 01A05, 51-03, 51M04

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Table of Contents

Front/Back Matter

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Chapters

• Chapter 1. The Bride’s Chair
• Chapter 2. Zhou Bi Suan Jing
• Chapter 3. Garfield’s Trapezoid
• Chapter 4. The Semicircle
• Chapter 5. Similar Figures
• Chapter 6. Cevians
• Chapter 7. The Right Triangle
• Chapter 8. Napoleon’s Triangles
• Chapter 9. Arcs and Angles
• Chapter 10. Polygons with Circles
• Chapter 11. Two Circles
• Chapter 12. Venn Diagrams
• Chapter 13. Overlapping Figures
• Chapter 14. Yin and Yang
• Chapter 15. Polygonal Lines
• Chapter 16. Star Polygons
• Chapter 17. Self-similar Figures
• Chapter 18. Tatami
• Chapter 19. The Rectangular Hyperbola
• Chapter 20. Tiling

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