Measurement
By: Paul Lockhart
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780674057555
Subjects: Geometry
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Reality and imagination -- On problems -- Size and shape. In which we begin our investigation of abstract geometrical figures -- Symmetrical tiling and angle measurement -- Scaling and proportion -- Length, area, and volume -- The method of exhaustion and its consequences -- Polygons and trigonometry -- Conic sections and projective geometry -- Mechanical curves -- Time and space. Containing some thoughts on mathematical motion -- Coordinate systems and dimension -- Motion as a numerical relationship -- Vector representation and mechanical relativity -- The measurement of velocity -- The differential calculus and its myriad uses -- Some final words of encouragement to the reader.