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The Mathematics Of The Heavens And The Earth (Inbunden)
avGlen Van Brummelen
ISBN: 9780691129730 - UTGIVEN: 2009-01-05Presents the history in English of the origins and early development of trigonometry. This book identifies the earliest known trigonometric precursors in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Greece, and examines the revolutionary discoveries of Hipparchus. It traces trigonometry's development into a full-fle[...]
Heavenly Mathematics (Inbunden)
avGlen Van Brummelen
ISBN: 9780691148922 - UTGIVEN: 201301Spherical trigonometry was at the heart of astronomy and ocean-going navigation for two millennia. The discipline was a mainstay of mathematics education for centuries, and it was a standard subject in high schools until the 1950s. Today, however, it is rarely taught. "Heavenly Mathematics" traces t[...]
