Geometry: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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I haven't read many of these 'Very short introductions', and some I've dipped into have been disappointing. I generally find the "A Very Short Introduction" series to actually be quite good, with most of the volumes accomplishing exactly what they intend to by giving a good overall sense of a field of inquiry and its methods, or of the important elements of a given topic.

The Chalke History Festival announces a new name, new look, and tons for history buffs to get their teeth into! About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. all this being said, this book is great for someone who has had mathematics in high school and knows what's what.people tend to ignore the relationship between math and music (which leads to sound, which leads to the meter in poetry), math and language (linguistics, which structures our LLM and potentially AGI), and math and philosophy (multi-dimensional space - phenomenology, architecture, technology - , symbolic logic - public policy, and so on). Iako je autor sve to fino objašnjavao, opet mislim da treba da postoji neka podloga znanja za lakše razumevanje svih ovih stvari koje on spominje.

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /bABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area.Strangely, I think this book must be more interesting to people who don't like mathematics, but those are the ones less likely to read it. Timothy Gavors, one of the world's leading mathematicians, seeks to shed light on the differences between advanced mathematics and the mathematics we teach in school. I enjoyed this book so much, and because of its length, I finished it in one "seating" :-) The most important idea that I learned is to think about what a mathematical object DOES rather what it IS. The study of geometry is at least 2500 years old, and it is within this field that the concept of mathematical proof - deductive reasoning from a set of axioms - first arose.