Gnomon
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.20 (794 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691005141 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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It would be better if this guy could write I'm a regular reader of all sorts of books on math, and so Gnomon seemed a natural for me. I have a master's degree in computer science (bachelors, too, but i digress) and this sort of thing is right up my alley. The book doesn't really cover any new ground, but it does gather separate things into one volu. Slow going, but worth it According to Gazale', "Hero of Alexandria defined the gnomon as that figure (a number or a geometric figure) which, when added to another figure, results in a figure similar to the original." Gazale's book is, therefore, about self-similarity in numbers and geometry.The subject sounds simple enough, but I . "Well written, but tediously boring book" according to DougWell written, but tediously boring book .I found this book to be relatively well written, but tediously boring. This book should probably be considered "Recreational Mathematics" and is jammed with math; very little prose accompanies it. Indeed, if you do not love math, or do not love math for the sake of math (rather than, say, a physicist who . 10. .I found this book to be relatively well written, but tediously boring. This book should probably be considered "Recreational Mathematics" and is jammed with math; very little prose accompanies it. Indeed, if you do not love math, or do not love math for the sake of math (rather than, say, a physicist who
Whether he's moving on from the familiar golden rectangle to his own "silver pentagon" or rooting around in the numbers underlying the groovy fractal images popping up on T-shirts worldwide, he takes care to explain to the reader not just what's going on mathematically but what all this abstraction really means to us. Gazale, also of Alexandria, goes much further and uses 20th-century concepts to fully explore "gnomonicity"--the property of self-similarity. --Rob Lightner. How are the great pyra
These diverse forms of nature and mathematics are united by a common factor: all involve self-repeating shapes, or gnomons. He is a mathematician and engineer who teaches at the University of Paris and whose business career lifted him to the Presidency of AT&T-France. The beaver's tooth and the tiger's claw. Inspired by Hero, Midhat Gazalé--a fellow native of Alexandria--explains the properties of gnomons, traces their long and colorful history in human thought, and explores the mathematical and geometrical marvels they make possible.Gazalé is a man of wide-ranging interests and accomplishments. In a spiral seashell, for example, we see that each new section of growth (the gnomon) resembles its predecessor and maintains the shell's overall shape. Almost two thousand years ago, Hero of Alexandria defined the gnomon as that form which, when added to some form, results in a new form, similar to the original. Fractals, Fibonacci sequences, and logarithmic