Heavenly Mathematics The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry
Year: 2013 Language: english Author: Glen Van Brummelen Genre: Textbook Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 978-0-691-14892-2 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 217 Description: Spherical trigonometry was originally born to locate stars and planets. Open seas navigators relied on it to find their position, and lives were lost when their skills failed them. Its dominance continued up to WW2 and the 1950s, then became to fade away with the raise of electronic navigation. This book aims to introduce its readers to a beautiful and useful topic. It is intended as a teaching and learning resource, and offers an accessible and entertaining introduction to spherical trigonometry. But the key to this book is fun. Applications are interesting and substantial: finding the distance between two points on the Earth's surface, navigating a sailboat or airplane by the stars; predicting the Sun's altitude. Although not a history book, it traces the history of spherical trigonometry in the ancient, medieval, and modern age. Chapters end with exercises, images, drawings and diagrams, as well as easy-to-use appendixes containing a long list of textbooks and recommendations for further reading organized by individual chapters.
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Heavenly Mathematics The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry
Language: english
Author: Glen Van Brummelen
Genre: Textbook
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 978-0-691-14892-2
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 217
Description: Spherical trigonometry was originally born to locate stars and planets. Open seas navigators relied on it to find their position, and lives were lost when their skills failed them. Its dominance continued up to WW2 and the 1950s, then became to fade away with the raise of electronic navigation. This book aims to introduce its readers to a beautiful and useful topic. It is intended as a teaching and learning resource, and offers an accessible and entertaining introduction to spherical trigonometry. But the key to this book is fun. Applications are interesting and substantial: finding the distance between two points on the Earth's surface, navigating a sailboat or airplane by the stars; predicting the Sun's altitude. Although not a history book, it traces the history of spherical trigonometry in the ancient, medieval, and modern age. Chapters end with exercises, images, drawings and diagrams, as well as easy-to-use appendixes containing a long list of textbooks and recommendations for further reading organized by individual chapters.
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