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The King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry Relié – 30 octobre 2006

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    Walker & Co
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    30 octobre 2006
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    16.33 x 3.81 x 24.44 cm
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    0887842011
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0887842016
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0802714994
  • Éditeur ‏ : ‎ Walker & Co (30 octobre 2006)
  • Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais
  • Relié ‏ : ‎ 399 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0887842011
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0887842016
  • Poids de l'article ‏ : ‎ 726 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.33 x 3.81 x 24.44 cm

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  • doug hone
    5,0 sur 5 étoiles A Kingly Read
    Avis laissé au Canada le 15 février 2024
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    This is a beautifully written book and a beautiful read about a beautiful mathematician. I liked the small mountain of research that went into the very informative biography. But wait, there's more. The Appendices alone would make a small book and a good read. So much detail.
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  • jeffer
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    Avis laissé aux États-Unis le 9 avril 2017
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    Really enjoyed this. I'll pass on doing a long review, just say Ms Roberts presented the math well meaning she didn't overdo it, and I thought the explanations were clear. The biographic parts were excellent.
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  • ASK
    5,0 sur 5 étoiles All mathematicians should read this. When math veered away ...
    Avis laissé aux États-Unis le 31 août 2014
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    All mathematicians should read this. When math veered away from geometry, the teaching of math became much more difficult. This explains the reasoning behind decisions and how it affected nearly every math person during the last century.
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  • Rodrigo Silveira
    4,0 sur 5 étoiles Coxeter will be with me for the rest of my life
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    King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
    King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry (Hardcover)
    by Siobhan Roberts (Author)

    I learned arithmetics using my mother's measuring tape. Thereza, my mom, noticed my curiosity and decided to take advantage of the opportuntity to teach me about numbers as much as she could using the measuring tape. With my mom's help and using a simple measuring tape I learned to add, subtract, multiply and divide. From there on and until later in college, numbers, and later mathematics, were an integral part of my life. As time went on, my love for mathematics waned. Eventually I embraced a career in software engineering. Although I never lost my love and passion for it, I have not been able to connect with it all these years.

    Around one year ago, a friend of mine mentioned this book during a casual conversation. I bought it and let it sit on my books to read pile for almost one year. I packed it as I prepared for a trip to India. Half way through the trip I finish whatever I was reading and started on it. Starting on page one, I was totally enthralled. It took me a while to understand. Now that I finished it I know.

    Geometry got me going. Slowly but surely it was replaced by Algebra, which was the focus of my studies during my college days. The New Math of the sixties and ealy seventies was the ultimate expression of this movement. I remember a scene in college where an Algebra teacher told me I had no future in mathematics after I asked me to explain to me the practical applications of some complicated theorem she had just completed to demonstrate. That was the turning point. It became clear to me that, regardless of my love and passion for Mathematics, I had to go. And go I did! So have gone millions of kids who are born bubbling with the desire to learn the world about them, are endowed with the geometric instincts to do so, but are also robbed of this opportunity by the austerity of the analitycal thinking imposed on them by the dry algebra based mathematial curriculum of nowadays.

    Coxeter biography brought it all together for me. In addition to chronicling the life on an imensily interesting man, it also provided me with an incisive look at what happened with Geometry in the early part of the twentieth century and how the analitical reasoning required for Algebra replaced the intuitive thinking required for Geometry on our curriculum. My poor Algebra teacher had been a victim and with her a number of students that need an intuitive perspective to comprehend the complex Algebra before us.

    Coxeter lived to prove her wrong and to rekindle my passions. This biography is well written, anyone with a modic level o interest can enjoy it. Those with lingering and unspent passions will feel compelled to learn more about his works and contributions to Mathematics and society.

    I have a very hard time to finishing reading certain biographies. Coxeter's was one of them. No matter how great the life, it has to come to an end, and I struggled with it for quite some time. Coxeter will be with me for the rest of my life.
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  • Ralph E. Dratman
    5,0 sur 5 étoiles Excellent, fast service
    Avis laissé aux États-Unis le 29 décembre 2019
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    A clean copy in good shape. Thanks!
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