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Complex Numbers in Geometry – Yaglom

In this post, we will see the book Complex Numbers in Geometry by I. M. Yaglom. About the book This book is intended for pupils in the top classes in high schools and for students in mathematics departments of universities … Continue reading

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In the Search for Beauty – Smilga

In an earlier post we have seen a wonderful book on special relativity titled Relativity and Man by V. Smilga. In that post, it was pointed out another book by this wonderful author titled In theSearch for Beauty, which has … Continue reading

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Little Mathematics Library – Lobachevskian Geometry

We now come to Lobachevskian Geometry by A. S. Smogorzhevsky in the Little Mathematics Library series.As the title of the book suggests the book is about one of the non-Euclidean geometries viz. the one by Lobachevsky. The back cover of … Continue reading

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Little Mathematics Library – Stereographic Projection

We now come to another book in the Little Mathematics Library titled Stereographic Projection by B. A. Rosenfeld and N. D. Sergeeva. As the title suggests the book deals with projections on planes. The present booklet is devoted to proofs … Continue reading

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