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Beautiful Geometry by Eli Maor
$49.95 NZD
Category: Popular Science
If you've ever thought that mathematics and art don't mix, this stunning visual history of geometry will change your mind. As much a work of art as a book about mathematics, Beautiful Geometry presents more than sixty exquisite color plates illustrating a wide range of geometric patterns and theorems, a ...Show more
"E": The Story of a Number by Eli Maor
$38.95 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie b ...Show more
Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg by Eli Maor
$59.99 NZD
Category: Music
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements, the works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Igor Stravinsky said "musical form is close to mathematics," while Arnold Schoenberg, Ia ...Show more
Music by the Numbers - from Pythagoras to Schoenberg by Eli Maor
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth century Music is filled with mathematical elements. The works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Arnold Schoenberg, Iannis Xenakis, and Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote music explicitly ba ...Show more
The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History by Eli Maor
$41.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, Eli Maor reveals the full story of this ubiquitous geometric theorem. Maor shows that the theorem, although attributed to Pythagoras, was known to the Babylonians more than a thousand years earlier. ...Show more
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