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José Carlos Santos

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Nov 26, 2009, 1:57:10 AM11/26/09
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Hi all:

I would like to know examples of texts or websites about popularization
of Mathematics containing applications of Euclidean Geometry. Preferably
with something more sophisticated than the story about how Thales
measured the height of a pyramid...

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos

Gerry Myerson

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Nov 26, 2009, 7:01:56 PM11/26/09
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In article <7n6n64F...@mid.individual.net>,

Jos� Carlos Santos <jcsa...@fc.up.pt> wrote:

> I would like to know examples of texts or websites about popularization
> of Mathematics containing applications of Euclidean Geometry. Preferably
> with something more sophisticated than the story about how Thales
> measured the height of a pyramid...

Just about any "recreational math" book will have a chapter or two
devoted to things geometrical, from Loyd and Dudeney and Kraitchik
and Ball through Gardner to Stewart et al.

--
Gerry Myerson (ge...@maths.mq.edi.ai) (i -> u for email)

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