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David Acheson's extraordinary little book makes mathematics accessible to everyone. From very simple beginnings he takes us on a thrilling journey to some deep mathematical ideas. On the way, via Kepler and Newton, he explains what calculus really means, gives a brief history of pi, and even takes mostrar más us to chaos theory and imaginary numbers. Every short chapter is carefully crafted to ensure that no one will get lost on the journey. Packed with puzzles and illustrated by world famous cartoonists, this is one of the most readable and imaginative books on mathematics ever written. mostrar menos

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Acheson, David John
Fecha de nacimiento
1946
Género
male
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UK

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La geometria euclidea per vari secoli - nemmeno troppi, in realtà: diciamo dal 1700 al 1950? - è stata considerata il simbolo di come si dovrebbe fare matematica. Premesso che secondo me il rigore è sempre d'obbligo, ho il sospetto che sbatterlo in faccia ai ragazzi in questo modo sia controproducente. Ecco perché questo libro è il benvenuto. Acheson non ha nessuna voglia di dimostrare tutto in perfetto ordine e con il minimo numero di assunzioni possibile; tanto per dire, parte dal teorema di Talete, che è stato la sua epifania geometrica e che non è tra le primissime proposizioni euclidee. Racconta poi di testi storici di geometria con approcci assolutamente antieuclidei, di teoremi che non si studiano a scuola come quello di Miquel o quello dei sette cerchi, dà dimostrazioni non standard del fatto che le tre altezze di un triangolo passano per uno stesso punto... Insomma un modo fresco per dare un nuovo sguardo a un campo plurimillenario.… (más)
 
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.mau. | Jun 16, 2021 |
Despite numerous "which"es that would be better off being "that"s, this short book is so simply and clearly written that I would say flatly that a child could understand it, were it not for the fact that the child would, of course, have to already know some high-school math. It gets as far as complex-number involvement and, in physics, partial differential equations (but does not introduce the "del" symbol).
 
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fpagan | otra reseña | Jun 2, 2018 |
Nice intro to calculus. It's start easy but not for long. After a few chapters the degree of maths goes beyond comprehension of most people (including me) but it's still a fine overview of what calculus is and contains. If your are searching for a historical view of calculus, without much worry about understanding everything, than is this book a good choose.
 
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Gert_Van_Bunderen | otra reseña | May 29, 2018 |
Much of David Acheson’s accessible overview of some of the highpoints of mathematics is delightful and even amazing. There is something startling about seeing the beauty of a proof for a theorem for the first time. And whether it is Pythagoras or Pi or e or i, the story of discovery in the history of the subject lends support to belief that we (well, some smart people at least) may be able to solve almost any problem, even problems we don’t even imagine yet. Acheson catches this enthusiasm nicely.

The risk, of course, for anyone of Acheson’s mathematical prowess writing for the general public is that almost anything that might be included in such a book will be seen as “simple” by him. Indeed, whether it is the following simple example, or something that can be seen simply, or by performing some simple algebra, the general reader rather quickly gets the impression that it is they themselves who are simple. That’s not really a complaint. No one reads a book like this hoping to learn that mathematicians are no more clever than the rest of us. We read it, I suspect, to be amazed. And for the most part, I was.

Gently recommended.
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