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288 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780822944188
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 30 October 2012
Description
In this follow-up to his popular Science Secrets, Alberto A. Mart nez discusses various popular myths from the history of mathematics: that Pythagoras proved the hypotenuse theorem, that Archimedes figured out how to test the purity of a gold cro...
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288 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780822944188
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 30 October 2012
Description
In this follow-up to his popular Science Secrets, Alberto A. Mart nez discusses various popular myths from the history of mathematics: that Pythagoras proved the hypotenuse theorem, that Archimedes figured out how to test the purity of a gold cro...