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9781608193981

Hidden Harmonies The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem

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    9781608193981

  • ISBN10:

    1608193985

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-09-04
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
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Summary

A squared plus bsquared equals csquared. It sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet this familiar expression opens a gateway into the riotous garden of mathematics, and sends us on a journey of exploration in the company of two inspired guides, Robert and Ellen Kaplan. With wit, verve, and clarity, they trace the life of the Pythagorean theorem, from ancient Babylon to the present, visiting along the way Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, President James Garfield, and the Freemasonsnot to mention the elusive Pythagoras himself, who almost certainly did not make the statement that bears his name. As in the authors' bestselling The Nothing That Isand Chances Are..., the excitement of mathematics leaps from the pages of Hidden Harmonies.

Author Biography

Robert and Ellen Kaplan are the founders of the Math Circle, where they have taught mathematics to people from six to sixty. Robert Kaplan is the author of the best-selling The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero, and together they wrote The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics and Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free. Learn more at their website, themathcircle.org.

Table of Contents

An Outlook on Insightsp. xi
The Mathematician as Demigodp. 1
Desert Virtuosip. 6
Through the Veilp. 44
Rebuilding the Cosmosp. 63
Touching the Bronze Skyp. 81
Exuberant Lifep. 138
Number Emerges from Shapep. 177
Living at the Limitp. 192
The Deep Point of the Dreamp. 224
Magic Casementsp. 254
Afterword Reaching Ihrough-or Past-History?p. 262
Acknowledgmentsp. 265
Notesp. 267
Selected Bibliographyp. 277
Indexp. 281
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