Cult of Pythagoras Math and Myths

Name: Cult of Pythagoras Math and Myths
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ISBN: 9780822962700

ISBN-10: 0822962705

ISBN-13: 9780822962700

Edition: 2012

Authors: Alberto A. Martinez

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In this follow-up to his popular Science Secrets, Alberto A. Martínez discusses various popular myths from the history of mathematics: that Pythagoras proved the hypotenuse theorem, that Archimedes figured out how to test the purity of a gold crown while he was in a bathtub, that the Golden Ratio is in nature and ancient architecture, that the young Galois created group theory the night before the pistol duel that killed him, and more. Some stories are partly true, others are entirely false, but all show the power of invention in history. Pythagoras emerges as a symbol of the urge to conjecture and “fill in the gaps” of history. He has been credited with fundamental discoveries in…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 6/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Myths and Apparent Myths


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Triangle Sacrifice to the Gods



An Irrational Murder at Sea



Ugly Old Socrates on Eternal Truth



The Death of Archimedes



Gauss, Galois, and the Golden Ratio



From Nothing to Infinity



Euler's Imaginary Mistakes



The Four of Pythagoras



The War over the Infinitely Small



Impossible Triangles



Inventing Mathematics?



The Cult of Pythagoras


Notes


Illustration Sources and Credits


Index