6 edition of Euclid in the Rainforest found in the catalog.
Published
October 4, 2004
by Pi Press
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Written in English
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Number of Pages | 352 |
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Open Library | OL7336728M |
ISBN 10 | 0131479946 |
ISBN 10 | 9780131479944 |
Additional Physical Format: Online version: Mazur, Joseph. Euclid in the rainforest. New York: Pi, © (OCoLC) Document Type: Book: All Authors. Like Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach, and David Berlinski's A Tour of the Calculus, Euclid in the Rainforest combines the literary with the mathematical to explore logic--the one indispensable tool in man's quest to understand the world. Underpinning both math and science, it is the foundation of every major advancement in knowledge since the time of the 4/5(1).
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Euclid in the Rainforest is a personal meditation on the nature of truth and how human's determine the veracity of any statement or idea. As a math professor, Mazur apparently has taught this book as a course on logic and plausible reasoning (but maybe not with as much of the memoirs style personal stories thrown in)/5.
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For example, in the section on Euclid, Mazur starts with a story about soldiers in the /5(19). Joseph Mazur's book Euclid in the Rainforest is an earnest, rambling rehash of conventional topics in popular mathematics, spiced with disjointed tales of mathematical conversations in exotic places.
The book is divided into three parts. The first part, "Logic", treats the logic used in Euclid's Elements and the logic formalized by Aristotle (taken to be the same). About Euclid in the Rainforest.
Like Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, and David Berlinski’s A Tour of the Calculus, Euclid in the Rainforest combines the literary with the mathematical to explore logic—the one indispensable tool in man’s quest to understand the world.
Underpinning both math and science, it is the foundation of every major advancement in. Euclid in the Rainforest is beautifully written and packed with insights into how mathematicians convince themselves they are right.
Joe Mazur is a talented teacher who knows his subject inside out, and his delightful stories take his readers effortlessly to the heart of mathematics--logic and proof. This original and charming book is accessible to anyone, and deserves major success.- /5(3).
Euclid in the Rainforest by Joseph Mazur NEW YORK: PI PRESS (PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.), HARDCOVER, XV. + PP., US$ ISBN: (> REVIEWED BY EMILY GROSHOLZ athematics can be thought of as a thesaurus of p r o v e n resuits, or an o p e n - e n d e d historical process; as a collection of truths s u b s u m e d under axioms.
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Underpinning both math and science, it is the foundation of every major advancement in knowledge since the time of the ancient Greeks. Euclid in the Rainforest paints a sweeping history that identifies three central ideas of logic that have guided Western thought for the past 2, years.
By situating his theories in stories set first in the rainforests of Venezuela and then on the Mediterranean coastline, Mazur draws us into explorations that might otherwise seem hopelessly Author: Joseph Mazur.
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The same proposition appears as Proposition 5 in Book I of Euclid's Elements, with a proof based on far stricter standards. Although heuristics might have played a central role in guiding discovery and acceptance of the theorem, rigor would inevitably challenge any. Euclid in the Rainforest is a warm and joeeph masterpiece that reveals the spirit of mathematics.
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My quick review of the book, Euclid in the Rainforest, was that I didn’t like it very wasn’t so much the subject matter per se, rather it was how it was presented. Mazur’s method of presenting a little story and then talking about the actual point he was trying to present about math/logic just didn’t work for me.
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