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Monge's Legacy of Descriptive and Differential Geometry
Kristen R. Schreck
2016
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Description
This book examines the captivating life and inventive works of the French mathematician, Gaspard Monge. The mathematics encompassed in his descriptive and differential geometry is unveiled from an historical perspective and its enduring impact is transformed, via computer algebra system, into beautiful tangible images for the reader to ponder and further investigate. The book uses Maple as a robust system for coding which serves to highlight and illustrate the book's telling of a fascinating story in the history of mathematics. Maple's capabilities are used to bring Monge's ground-breaking ideas to life into the twenty-first century.
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Language: English
ISBN: 978-1942795926
Publisher: Docent Press
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