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Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry
Glen Van Brummelen
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| #614926 in Books | Princeton University Press | 2012-12-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.30 x1.00 x6.30l,1.27 | File type: PDF | 208 pages | ||59 of 64 people found the following review helpful.| Wonderful Book, but NOT just for history!|By Let's Compare Options Preptorial|The author is so wonderfully entranced and entrancing with this "lost art" that he kindof misses the fact that some of the "old" arts like quaternions (revolving around a world centered on the square root of negative 1 instead of 1!), triangular polygons on surfaces, Napier's pentagon, etc. are bein||One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013|Shortlisted for the 2013 BSHM Neumann Book Prize, British Society for the History of Mathematics
"Once a mainstay of mathematics, spherical trigonometry no longer appears on s
Heavenly Mathematics traces the rich history of spherical trigonometry, revealing how the cultures of classical Greece, medieval Islam, and the modern West used this forgotten art to chart the heavens and the Earth. Once at the heart of astronomy and ocean-going navigation for two millennia, the discipline was also a mainstay of mathematics education for centuries and taught widely until the 1950s. Glen Van Brummelen explores this exquisite branch of mathematic...
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