Trigonometric Delights
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: February 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780691095417
Subjects: Elementary geometry & trigonometry; Euclidean geometry; History of mathematics; Trigonometry; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; History & Philosophy; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Mathematics / History
First sentence: In 1858 a Scottish lawyer and antiquarian, A. Henry Rhind (1833-1863), on one of his trips to the Nile valley, purchased a document that had been found a few years earlier in the ruins of a small building in Thebes (near present-day Luxor) in Upper Egypt.