Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem
Ellen Kaplan; Robert Kaplan
ISBN 10: 1596915226 ISBN 13: 9781596915220
Published by Bloomsbury Press, 2011
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Synopsis:
The untold history of the most famous relation in mathematics and what it illustrates about the nature of human reasoning.
About the Authors:
Ellen Kaplan has taught mathematics to people from six to sixty, at leading independent schools and most recently at Harvard University. With her husband, Robert, she wrote The Art of the Infinite. Ellen is also co-author of Chances Are: Adventures in Probability and Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human, co-written with her son, Michael Kaplan.
Robert Kaplan has taught mathematics to people from six to sixty, at leading independent schools and most recently at Harvard University. He is the author of the best-selling The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero, which has been translated into 10 languages, and, with his wife, Ellen, the co-author of The Art of the Infinite.
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Title: Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the...
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket