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Title: Trigonometric Delights by Eli Maor ISBN: 0-691-09541-8 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 25 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: generous
Comment: This book is really interesting primarily for its information about the history of trigonometry. There's some interesting stuff about the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians and Greeks; and a lot of great stuff about early European mathematics; stopping around Euler's time.
I hadn't studied trig in about 8 years, and I thought this would be a good review. Boy, was I wrong! I needed to do the review and then study this book!
Anyway, if you're a fairly gifted high school trig student, this book will certainly liven up the subject for you. If you're a college math major, it will be easy reading, and certainly interesting. If you're a teacher, you might find something interesting to entertain your students. Otherwise, unless you really like math or are really good at it, this book will probably be really difficult for you.
When I was feeling lazy I kind of breezed through the dense equations and looked for the conclusions, but when I was diligent I could usually make sense of them. You can do as I did and you won't miss much. Really, the highlights of the book are the historical information, not the equations. But if you can appreciate the equations as well, then you'll probably really enjoy the book.
Of course this isn't a life-changing or eye-opening book, but I gave it 5 stars just so no one thinks there's anything wrong with it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply Delightful
Comment: What do sines, pyramids, music, and Fourier series all have in common? Eli Maor did an excellent job in explaining these dry and seemingly irrelevant terminologies to his readers. From Ahmes the Scribe to Fourier, Maor traced the development of trigonometry by juxtaposing different trig concepts with people and anecdotes. An inspiratoinal book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Historical Adventure
Comment: Trigonometry and geometry are important parts for understand or handle what happend with the thigs in our world. Usually you can use these for study a force like a vector in the space, or you will need verify how are related forces several in parts of a complex structure, or you want to discover by yourself how was verified earth shape and who made it first.
Maybe you under siege for an incredible account of information of strange scientifics developments in the past, finally you need understand what is a amazing science, is part of our knowledge. Maybe you think that is too much cold, bored and so useless, but when you read this historical adventure you would say it's incredible, I don't have idea!.
With this kind of book that we can understand our complex knowledge legacy and get more value for it, because this is science not magic, it should be a very usefull tool for teachers and students.
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Title: e: The Story of a Number by Eli Maor ISBN: 0691058547 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 04 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: To Infinity and Beyond by Eli Maor ISBN: 0691025118 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 09 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: An Imaginary Tale by Paul J. Nahin ISBN: 0691027951 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 24 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics by William Dunham ISBN: 014014739X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Euler : The Master of Us All by William Dunham, William Watkins ISBN: 0883853280 Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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