New horizons in geometry [electronic resource] / Tom M. Apostol, California Institute of Technology, and Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian, California Institute of Technology
- Author
- Apostol, Tom M.
- Published
- Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America, [2012]
- Physical Description
- xiv, 513 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Mnat͡sakani͡an, M. A.
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- Contents
- Mamikon's sweeping -- tangent theorem -- Cycloids and trochoids -- Cyclogons and trochogons -- Circumgons and circumsolids -- The method of punctured containers -- Unwrapping curves from cylinders and cones -- New descriptions of conics via twisted cylinders, focal disks, and directors -- Ellipse to hyperbola: "with this string I thee wed" -- Trammels -- Isoperimetric and isoparametric problems -- Arclength and tanvolutes -- Centroids -- New balancing principles with applications -- Sums of squares.
- Summary
- Calculus problems solved by elementary geometrical methods --- P. 4 of cover.
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- ISBN
- 9780883853542 (hbk.)
088385354X (hdbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-504) and index.
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