The circle is an elegant, abstract form that has been transformed by humans into tangible, practical forms to make our lives easier. And yet no one has ever discovered a true mathematical circle. Ernest Zebrowski, Jr., discusses why investigations of the circle have contributed enormously to our current knowledge of the physical universe. Beginning with the ancient mathematicians and culminating in twentieth-century theories of space and time, the mathematics of the circle has pointed many investigators in fruitful ...
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The circle is an elegant, abstract form that has been transformed by humans into tangible, practical forms to make our lives easier. And yet no one has ever discovered a true mathematical circle. Ernest Zebrowski, Jr., discusses why investigations of the circle have contributed enormously to our current knowledge of the physical universe. Beginning with the ancient mathematicians and culminating in twentieth-century theories of space and time, the mathematics of the circle has pointed many investigators in fruitful directions in their quests to unravel nature's secrets.
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Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing, VG., Dustwrapper. 24x16cm, xii, 215 pp. Contents: The Quest for Pi; Rollers, Wheels, and Bearings; The Celestial Clock; Mathematics and the Physical World; Charting the Planet; Surface and Space; Celestial Orbs; From Conics to Gravity; Oscillations; Waves; Artificial and Natural Structures; The Real and Conjectured Universe; Appendix A: Formulas for the areas of common shapes; Appendix B: Formulas for the volumes of common solids; appendix C: Algebraic equations for the conic sections.
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