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Timber Circles in the East (Paperback): Patrick Taylor Timber Circles in the East (Paperback)
Patrick Taylor
R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
I. C. S. Reference Library: Types of Marine Boilers, Marine-Boiler Details, Marine-Boiler Accessories, Firing, Economic... I. C. S. Reference Library: Types of Marine Boilers, Marine-Boiler Details, Marine-Boiler Accessories, Firing, Economic Combustion, Marine-Boiler Feeding, Marine-Boiler Management, Marine-Boiler Repairs, Marine-Boiler Inspection, Propulsion of Vessels, Re (Paperback)
International Correspondence Schools
R630 Discovery Miles 6 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Skew Polyhedra - Being the Eighth Part of Several Comprising The Complete? Polyhedra (Paperback): Patrick John Taylor The Skew Polyhedra - Being the Eighth Part of Several Comprising The Complete? Polyhedra (Paperback)
Patrick John Taylor; Illustrated by Patrick John Taylor
R172 Discovery Miles 1 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
How to Polygon - Art and Geometry of Plane Tiling (Paperback): Mike Regan How to Polygon - Art and Geometry of Plane Tiling (Paperback)
Mike Regan
R499 R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Save R92 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Geometry (Teacher Guide) (Paperback): Harold R. Jacobs Geometry (Teacher Guide) (Paperback)
Harold R. Jacobs
R450 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Save R79 (18%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Geometry - Seeing, Doing, Understanding (Hardcover): Harold R. Jacobs Geometry - Seeing, Doing, Understanding (Hardcover)
Harold R. Jacobs
R1,500 R1,182 Discovery Miles 11 820 Save R318 (21%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Hyperskew Polyhedra - Being the Ninth Part of Several comprising The Complete? Polyhedra (Paperback): Patrick Taylor Hyperskew Polyhedra - Being the Ninth Part of Several comprising The Complete? Polyhedra (Paperback)
Patrick Taylor
R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
String, Straight-edge and Shadow - The Story of Geometry (Paperback): Julia E Diggins String, Straight-edge and Shadow - The Story of Geometry (Paperback)
Julia E Diggins; Illustrated by Corydon Bell
R309 R253 Discovery Miles 2 530 Save R56 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Please note that this Floris Books edition has been revised for UK and European notation, language and metric systems. From the early peoples who marvelled at the geometry of nature -- the beehive and bird's nest -- to ancient civilisations who questioned beautiful geometric forms and asked 'why?', the story of geometry spans thousands of years. Using only three simple tools -- the string, the straight-edge and the shadow -- human beings revealed the basic principles and constructions of elementary geometry. Weaving history and legend, this fascinating book reconstructs the discoveries of mathematics's most famous figures. Through illustrations and diagrams, readers are able to follow the reasoning that lead to an ingenious proof of the Pythagorean theorem, an appreciation of the significance of the Golden Mean in art and architecture, or the construction of the five regular solids. This insightful and engaging book makes geometry accessible to everyone. Readers will be fascinated with how the knowledge and wisdom of so many cultures helped shape our civilisation today. String, Straight-edge and Shadow is also a useful and inspiring book for those teaching geometry in Steiner-Waldorf classrooms.

Crosspacks and Cross Hypersolids (Paperback): Patrick Taylor Crosspacks and Cross Hypersolids (Paperback)
Patrick Taylor
R174 Discovery Miles 1 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Hypersolids and Quasihypersolids - Being the Sixth Part of Several Comprising the Complete? Polyhedra (Paperback): Patrick John... Hypersolids and Quasihypersolids - Being the Sixth Part of Several Comprising the Complete? Polyhedra (Paperback)
Patrick John Taylor; Illustrated by Patrick Taylor
R174 Discovery Miles 1 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Closepacks & Quasi-closepacks - Being the Fifth Part of Several Comprising the Complete? Polyhedra (Paperback): Patrick John... Closepacks & Quasi-closepacks - Being the Fifth Part of Several Comprising the Complete? Polyhedra (Paperback)
Patrick John Taylor
R172 Discovery Miles 1 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Symmetry - A Journey into the Patterns of Nature (Paperback): Marcus du Sautoy Symmetry - A Journey into the Patterns of Nature (Paperback)
Marcus du Sautoy
R497 R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Save R85 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Symmetry is all around us. Of fundamental significance to the way we interpret the world, this unique, pervasive phenomenon indicates a dynamic relationship between objects. Combining a rich historical narrative with his own personal journey as a mathematician, Marcus du Sautoy takes a unique look into the mathematical mind as he explores deep conjectures about symmetry and brings us face-to-face with the oddball mathematicians, both past and present, who have battled to understand symmetry's elusive qualities.

Incomplete Tilings - Being the Second Part of Several Comprising the Complete? Polyhedra (Paperback): Patrick John Taylor Incomplete Tilings - Being the Second Part of Several Comprising the Complete? Polyhedra (Paperback)
Patrick John Taylor
R174 Discovery Miles 1 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ruler and Compass - Practical Geometric Constructions (Paperback): Andrew Sutton Ruler and Compass - Practical Geometric Constructions (Paperback)
Andrew Sutton 1
R180 R163 Discovery Miles 1 630 Save R17 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

How do you draw a heptagon? What about a heptakaidecagon? How do you fit circles perfectly into triangles? And around them? If the computer is down - could you do it with ruler and compass? In this unique little book, Andrew Sutton guides you through the once treasured principles of ruler and compass constructions, used for centuries by architects, carpenters, stonemasons and master craftsmen. Designed to last until the lights go out, this is a timeless book. WOODEN BOOKS are small but packed with information. "Fascinating" FINANCIAL TIMES. "Beautiful" LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. "Rich and Artful" THE LANCET. "Genuinely mind-expanding" FORTEAN TIMES. "Excellent" NEW SCIENTIST. "Stunning" NEW YORK TIMES. Small books, big ideas.

Simpler? Polyhedra - Being the Third Part of Several Comprising the Complete? Polyhedra (Paperback): Patrick John Taylor Simpler? Polyhedra - Being the Third Part of Several Comprising the Complete? Polyhedra (Paperback)
Patrick John Taylor
R175 Discovery Miles 1 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Star and Cross Polyhedra - Being the Fourth Part of Several Comprising the Complete?Polyhedra (Paperback): Patrick John... The Star and Cross Polyhedra - Being the Fourth Part of Several Comprising the Complete?Polyhedra (Paperback)
Patrick John Taylor
R174 Discovery Miles 1 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Simply Maths (Hardcover): Dk Simply Maths (Hardcover)
Dk
R150 R120 Discovery Miles 1 200 Save R30 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Understanding maths has never been easier. Combining bold, elegant graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Maths is the perfect introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge. Covering more than 90 key mathematical concepts from prime numbers and fractions to quadratic equations and probability experiments, each pared-back, single-page entry explains the concept more clearly than ever before. Organized by major themes - number theory and systems; calculations; geometry; algebra; graphs; ratio and proportion; measurement; probability and statistics; and calculus - entries explain the essentials of each key mathematical theory with simple clarity and for ease of understanding. Whether you are studying maths at school or college, or simply want a jargon-free overview of the subject, this indispensable guide is packed with everything you need to understand the basics quickly and easily.

Anaximander - And the Nature of Science (Paperback): Carlo Rovelli Anaximander - And the Nature of Science (Paperback)
Carlo Rovelli
R395 R316 Discovery Miles 3 160 Save R79 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Now widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli's first book: the thrilling story of a little-known man who created one of the greatest intellectual revolutions Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed in the heavens above and the Earth below. Then, on the Ionian coast, a Greek philosopher named Anaximander set in motion a revolution. He not only conceived that the Earth floats in space, but also that animals evolve, that storms and earthquakes are natural, not supernatural, that the world can be mapped and, above all, that progress is made by the endless search for knowledge. Carlo Rovelli's first book, now widely available in English, tells the origin story of scientific thinking: our rebellious ability to reimagine the world, again and again.

The Hidden Geometry of Flowers - Living Rhythms, Form and Number (Paperback): Keith Critchlow The Hidden Geometry of Flowers - Living Rhythms, Form and Number (Paperback)
Keith Critchlow; Foreword by The Prince Of Wales
R1,122 R905 Discovery Miles 9 050 Save R217 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Can we imagine a world without flowers? Flowers are beautiful, offering us delight in their colour, fragrance and form, as well as their medicinal benefits. Flowers also speak to us in the language of the plant form itself, as cultural symbols in different societies, and at the highest levels of inspiration. In this beautiful and original book, renowned thinker and geometrist Keith Critchlow has chosen to focus on an aspect of flowers that has received perhaps the least attention. This is the flower as teacher of symmetry and geometry (the 'eternal verities', as Plato called them). In this sense, he says, flowers can be treated as sources of remembering -- a way of recalling our own wholeness, as well as awakening our inner power of recognition and consciousness. What is evident in the geometry of the face of a flower can remind us of the geometry that underlies all existence. Working from his own flower photographs and with every geometric pattern hand-drawn, the author reviews the role of flowers within the perspective of our relationship with the natural world. His illuminating study is an attempt to re-engage the human spirit in its intimate relation with all nature.

ACT Math Prep Book 2020 and 2021 - ACT Math Workbook and Practice Tests [2nd Edition] (Paperback): Test Prep Books ACT Math Prep Book 2020 and 2021 - ACT Math Workbook and Practice Tests [2nd Edition] (Paperback)
Test Prep Books
R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Drawing Geometry - A Primer of Basic Forms for Artists, Designers and Architects (Paperback): Jon Allen Drawing Geometry - A Primer of Basic Forms for Artists, Designers and Architects (Paperback)
Jon Allen; Foreword by Keith Critchlow
R398 R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Geometry is both elegantly simple and infinitely profound. Many professionals find they need to be able to draw geometric shapes accurately, and this unique book shows them how. It provides step-by-step instructions for constructing two-dimensional geometric shapes, which can be readily followed by a beginner, or used as an invaluable source book by students and professionals.

Complete? Polygon - Being the First Part of Several Comprising the Complete? Polyhedra (Paperback): Patrick John Taylor Complete? Polygon - Being the First Part of Several Comprising the Complete? Polyhedra (Paperback)
Patrick John Taylor
R170 Discovery Miles 1 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Geometry of Derivation with Applications (Hardcover): Norman L. Johnson Geometry of Derivation with Applications (Hardcover)
Norman L. Johnson
R2,763 Discovery Miles 27 630 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Geometry of Derivation with Applications is the fifth work in a longstanding series of books on combinatorial geometry (Subplane Covered Nets, Foundations of Translation Planes, Handbook of Finite Translation Planes, and Combinatorics of Spreads and Parallelisms). Like its predecessors, this book will primarily deal with connections to the theory of derivable nets and translation planes in both the finite and infinite cases. Translation planes over non-commutative skewfields have not traditionally had a significant representation in incidence geometry, and derivable nets over skewfields have only been marginally understood. Both are deeply examined in this volume, while ideas of non-commutative algebra are also described in detail, with all the necessary background given a geometric treatment. The book builds upon over twenty years of work concerning combinatorial geometry, charted across four previous books and is suitable as a reference text for graduate students and researchers. It contains a variety of new ideas and generalizations of established work in finite affine geometry and is replete with examples and applications.

Bornologies and Lipschitz Analysis (Hardcover): Gerald Beer Bornologies and Lipschitz Analysis (Hardcover)
Gerald Beer
R2,541 Discovery Miles 25 410 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This monograph, for the first time in book form, considers the large structure of metric spaces as captured by bornologies: families of subsets that contain the singletons, that are stable under finite unions, and that are stable under taking subsets of its members. The largest bornology is the power set of the space and the smallest is the bornology of its finite subsets. Between these lie (among others) the metrically bounded subsets, the relatively compact subsets, the totally bounded subsets, and the Bourbaki bounded subsets. Classes of functions are intimately connected to various bornologies; e.g., (1) a function is locally Lipschitz if and only if its restriction to each relatively compact subset is Lipschitz; (2) a subset is Bourbaki bounded if and only if each uniformly continuous function on the space is bounded when restricted to the subset. A great deal of attention is given to the variational notions of strong uniform continuity and strong uniform convergence with respect to the members of a bornology, leading to the bornology of UC-subsets and UC-spaces. Spaces on which its uniformly continuous real-valued functions are stable under pointwise product are characterized in terms of the coincidence of the Bourbaki bounded subsets with a usually larger bornology. Special attention is given to Lipschitz and locally Lipschitz functions. For example, uniformly dense subclasses of locally Lipschitz functions within the real-valued continuous functions, Cauchy continuous functions, and uniformly continuous functions are presented. It is shown very generally that a function between metric spaces has a particular metric property if and only if whenever it is followed in a composition by a real-valued Lipschitz function, the composition has the property. Bornological convergence of nets of closed subsets, having Attouch-Wets convergence as a prototype, is considered in detail. Topologies of uniform convergence for continuous linear operators between normed spaces is explained in terms of the bornological convergence of their graphs. Finally, the idea of a bornological extension of a topological space is presented, and all regular extensions can be so realized.

Elementary Introduction to Quantum Geometry (Hardcover): Jan Ambjorn Elementary Introduction to Quantum Geometry (Hardcover)
Jan Ambjorn
R2,323 Discovery Miles 23 230 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Key features: Presents the first elementary introduction to quantum geometry Explores how to understand quantum geometry without prior knowledge beyond bachelor level physics and mathematics. Contains exercises, problems and solutions to supplement and enhance learning

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