The Story of Euclid is a fascinating book about ancient Greek mathematicians, specially the life of the great geometer Euclid. Almost every concept included in elementary textbooks in geometry was already developed by those mathematicians. This EBook is not about geometry exercises, nor about analytic geometry; this EBook is about the man who laid the foundations for this beautiful branch of mathematics and visual reasoning.
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Can you recognize the figure at right? Will you bet that it is Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa? Why is it so distorted?
Well, believe it or not, you are seeing the Mona Lisa as if it were painted on the surface of a helicoid.
Transformations are a special and delicate subject in mathematics. Transformations are commonly used in the engineering fields of physics, heat-conduction, air-flow, etc. But transformations are also used in art where objects are seen from another standpoint of view. You can download an EBook full of transformations.
Go here for The Golden E-Book of Graphs of Mathematical Functions.
Can someone be found guilty of using a telescope? Can someone be found guilty of exploring new frontiers of science?
Well, not in this times, but this was not the case some 400 years ago. However, Galileo was confronted with both scenarios.
Being a brilliant man as he was, he may have had a double intention when he "arraigned personally" to the Inquisition. Galileo was an arrogant man, controversial, and contentious. Did he deliberately sign the abjuration document just to insert a Trojan horse to the Catholic Church?
This is one of the essays of The Vengeance of Galileo. But the EBook is full of other similar critical essays.