Tuesday, September 6, 2011

How Round is Your Circle? by John Bryant and Chris Sangwin

A book about math meeting engineering. About actually making things based on mathematics. It is very interesting. I was especially intrigued by the section on planimeters, slide rules, shapes of constant width, and stacking dominoes so they overhang; even simple things like marking a ruler are much more involved than one would think. A book of a hundred discoveries.

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