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Concepts & images : visual mathematics
Title:
Concepts & images : visual mathematics
Author:
Loeb, Arthur L. (Arthur Lee)
ISBN:
9780817636203

9783764336202
Publication Information:
Boston : Birkhauser, c1993.
Physical Description:
xi, 228 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series:
Design science collection
General Note:
"A Pro scientia viva title."
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Areas and Angles -- 3. Tessellations and Symmetry -- 4. The Postulate of Closest Approach -- 5. The Coexistence of Rotocenters -- 6. A Diophantine Equation and its Solutions -- 7. Enantiomorphy -- 8. Symmetry Elements in the Plane -- 9. Pentagonal Tessellations -- 10. Hexagonal Tessellations -- 11. Dirichlet Domain -- 12. Points and Regions -- 13. A Look at Infinity -- 14. An Irrational Number -- 15. The Notation of Calculus -- 16. Integrals and Logarithms -- 17. Growth Functions -- 18. Sigmoids and the Seventh-year Trifurcation, a Metaphor -- 19. Dynamic Symmetry and Fibonacci Numbers -- 20. The Golden Triangle -- 21. Quasi Symmetry -- Appendix I: Exercise in Glide Symmetry -- Appendix II: Construction of Logarithmic Spiral.
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