A Panoply of Polygons presents and organizes hundreds of beautiful, surprising and intriguing results about polygons with more than four sides. (A Cornucopia of Quadrilaterals, a previous volume by the same authors, thoroughly explored the properties of four-sided polygons.) This panoply consists of eight chapters, one dedicated to polygonal basics, the next ones dedicated to pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, octagons and many-sided polygons. Then miscellaneous classes of polygons are explored (e.g., lattice, rectilinear, zonogons, cyclic, tangential) and the final chapter presents polygonal numbers (figurate numbers based on polygons). Applications, real-life examples, and uses in art and architecture complement the presentation where many proofs with a visual nature are included.A Panoply of Polygons can be used as a supplement to a high school or college geometry course. It can also be used as a source for group projects or extra-credit assignments. It will appeal, and be accessible to, anyone with an interest in plane geometry. Claudi Alsina and Roger Nelsen are, jointly and individually, the authors of thirteen previous MAA/AMS books. Those books, and this one, celebrate and illuminate the power of visualization in learning, teaching, and creating mathematics.
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Presents and organises hundreds of beautiful, surprising and intriguing results about polygons with more than four sides. This panoply consists of eight chapters, one dedicated to polygonal basics, the next ones dedicated to pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, octagons and many-sided polygons.
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Polygon basicsPentagonsHexagonsHeptagonsOctagonsMany-sided polygonsMiscellaneous classes of polygonsPolygonal numbersSolutions to the challengesCredits and permissionsIndex
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781470471842
Publisert
2023-05-31
Utgiver
Vendor
American Mathematical Society
Vekt
146 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
274
Biographical note
Claudi Alsina, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.Roger B. Nelsen, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR.