Published 2016 — IMM Lifestyle Books
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Text © 2016 by Dr Bob Solomon
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Contents
Writing Numbers
Fractions
Quadratic Equations
The Greatest Pyramid
π
The Pythagoreans
Pythagoras’s Theorem
Irrational Numbers
Perfect Numbers
Regular Polygons
Platonic Solids
The Golden Ratio
Trisecting the Angle
Doubling the Cube
Squaring the Circle
Zeno’s Paradoxes
Plato and Platonism
Conic Sections
Euclid’s Elements
The Fifth Postulate
Sum of the Angles in a Triangle
The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic
The Infinity of Prime Numbers
Measurement of a Sphere
Quadrature of the Parabola
The Sand Reckoner
Trigonometry
Negative Numbers
The Earth-Centered Universe
Zero
Kitab wa al jabr wa al muqabalah (The Book of Shifting and Balancing)
Cubic Equations – Geometric Solutions
Fibonacci Numbers
Perspective
Cubic Equations – Algebraic Solution
Quartic Equations
The Sun-Centered Universe
Mathematical Induction
Falling Bodies
The Sun-Centered Universe Again
Logarithms
Tessellations
Regular Solids Revisited
Calculating Machines
Analytic Geometry
A Formula for Prime Numbers
The Problem of the Points
Pascal’s Triangle
The Binomial Distribution
Pascal’s Wager
Differentiation
