Heavenly Mathematics (eBook)

The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry

Glen Van Brummelen (Autor)

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2012 | 1. Auflage
208 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4480-7 (ISBN)

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Glen Van Brummelen is coordinator of mathematics at Quest University Canada and former president of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics. He won the 2016 Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, awarded by the Mathematical Association of America, and the 2017 3M National Teaching Fellowship, awarded by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.12.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 11 color plates. 30 halftones. 93 line illus. 1 table.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geometrie / Topologie
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
• Schlagworte: Abū 'l-Wafā • Abū Mahmūd al-Khujandī • Abū Nasr Mansūr ibn 'Alī ibn 'Irāq • Abū Sahl al-Kūhī • acute-angled triangle • Addition • Albert Girard • Amplitude • Analogy • angle • Antipodal point • Approximation • area • Aristarchus (crater) • Armillary sphere • astrolabe • Astronomer • astronomical triangle • Astronomical Unit • Astronomy • Augustus De Morgan • azimuth • B. M. Brown • Calculation • calendar year • Cartography • Celestial equator • Celestial globe • Celestial motion • Celestial Navigation • celestial sphere • Cesàro method • Christopher Columbus • Chronometer • Circle of latitude • circumference • Classical Greece • Claudius Ptolemy • clockwise • Computation • dead reckoning • declination • Determination • diagram • Diagram (category theory) • DIAMETER • dodecahedron • earth • ecliptic • Elements • Equation • equatorial coordinates • Equatorial coordinate system • Euclidean Geometry • Euclid's elements • Euler's formula • Figure of the Earth • from the earth to the moon • Geographic coordinate system • Geography • Geometry • Georg Rheticus • Gerald J. Toomer • Giuseppe Cesàro • Google Books • Great Circle • Hipparchus of Rhodes • hour • hour angle • Hypotenuse • icosahedron • inference • inverse trigonometric functions • Islam • Islamic religious rituals • Iteration • John Harrison • John Napier • Law of Cosines • Law of Sines • law of tangents • Leonhard Euler • Line segment • locality principle • logarithm • logarithms • longitude • Lunar distance (astronomy) • marteloio • Mathematical Collection • mathematician • Mathematics • Mathematics in medieval Islam • Mean anomaly • Measurement • mecca • Menelaus of Alexandria • Menelaus's Theorem • Menelaus' theorem • method of Saint Hilaire • Minute and second of arc • Moon • Napier's Rules • Nautical Chart • Navigation • Non-Euclidean geometry • Northern Hemisphere • Notation • oblique triangle • octahedron • Opus palatinum • parallel postulate • pentagramma mirificum • planar Law of Sines • planetarium software • Plane trigonometry • Planets • Planisphere • Polygon • polyhedron • Position of the Sun • Ptolemy • Pythagorean Theorem • qibla • Quantity • rectangle • regular polyhedron • result • Right angle • right-angled triangle • Right Ascension • Right triangle • rising time • Rule of Four Quantities • scientific notation • Scientist • semicircle • Significant figures • Special case • Sphaerica • Sphere • spherical astronomy • spherical geometry • spherical Law of Sines • spherical triangle • Spherical trigonometry • Star • Stars • Stellarium • stereographic projection • subtraction • Summation • Sun • table of sine • tetrahedron • Textbook • Theorem • Theorems • triangle • Trigonometric Functions • trigonometric table • Trigonometric tables • Trigonometry • True anomaly • Unit circle • Unit sphere • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4480-0 / 1400844800
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4480-7 / 9781400844807