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- catalog contributor b10605316.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "1. An old story. 1.1. Euclid and his modern rivals. 1.2. Geometry in and as culture. 1.3. No royal road -- 2. From points to proof. 2.1. Necessary ingredients. 2.2. The size of the earth. 2.3. The point of proof. 2.4. Exercises -- 3. Tricks with triangles. 3.1. The bridge of asses. 3.2. Practice. 3.3. Similarity. 3.4. Deception. 3.5. Exercises -- 4. Many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. 4.1. The theorem of Pythagoras. 4.2. The Chinese Pythagoras. 4.3. More trigonometry. 4.4. Exercises -- 5. From polygons to pi. 5.1. Some interesting circles. 5.2. Touching again. 5.3. Regular polygons. 5.4. Not so easy as pie. 5.5. Exercises -- 6. Tough knots. 6.1. Hero's formula for the area of a triangle.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 309 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Geometry civilized.".
- catalog identifier "0198500785 (hardback)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Geometry civilized.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Geometry civilized.".
- catalog subject "516/.05 21".
- catalog subject "Geometry, Plane History.".
- catalog subject "Geometry, Plane.".
- catalog subject "QA455 .H413 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. An old story. 1.1. Euclid and his modern rivals. 1.2. Geometry in and as culture. 1.3. No royal road -- 2. From points to proof. 2.1. Necessary ingredients. 2.2. The size of the earth. 2.3. The point of proof. 2.4. Exercises -- 3. Tricks with triangles. 3.1. The bridge of asses. 3.2. Practice. 3.3. Similarity. 3.4. Deception. 3.5. Exercises -- 4. Many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. 4.1. The theorem of Pythagoras. 4.2. The Chinese Pythagoras. 4.3. More trigonometry. 4.4. Exercises -- 5. From polygons to pi. 5.1. Some interesting circles. 5.2. Touching again. 5.3. Regular polygons. 5.4. Not so easy as pie. 5.5. Exercises -- 6. Tough knots. 6.1. Hero's formula for the area of a triangle.".
- catalog title "Geometry civilized : history, culture, and technique / J.L. Heilbron.".
- catalog type "text".