The Garden of Archimedes
A Museum for Mathematics |
Beyond the compasses.
ed. Polistampa, Firenze, 2000 - 92 pages, colour illustrated.
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It is born as a complement of the homonymous exhibition. It contains two essays, The geometry of curves and Curves and mechanisms , which, enriched by figures and pictures, illustrate the contents of the exhibition in an articulated way. It contains, moreover, pictures and brief descriptions of the exhibited objects and an historical section collecting images from the main text books referenced in the exhibition. Summary
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