THE book is to be welcomed as meeting the need for a single text-book dealing with all branches of geometry required in a two-years' course for a Higher School Certificate. The first seven chapters ...

I was not a big fan of math in school. It’s not that I could not do it; it just never excited me. I did just enough to pass math class and get on to something else. I never envisioned myself in any ...

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RENÉ DESCARTES (1596–1650), philosopher and mathematician, is of course universally, regarded as the inventor of the method of co-ordinates in geometry; hence the common name for them, Cartesian ...

Where waves once moved, now lie fields, forests, and towns — a geometry of straight lines and quiet order drawn across what was once open water. The land feels different from the rest of the country.

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