{"id":492,"date":"2004-07-22T17:02:50","date_gmt":"2004-07-22T11:02:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-09T07:22:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T01:22:04","slug":"mathematics-fro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/mathematics-fro\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one of those hefty references you don’t need to own; you just need to know where to find it. It’s like an oracle; if you want to know what some obscure mathematical concept or theorem is (What’s a Cantor Set?), you go here. The book has wit and humor; you’ll need persistence.<\/p>\n

— KK<\/p>\n

Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers
\nJan Gullberg
\n1997, 1,093 pages
\n$34
\nW.W. Norton
\nAmazon<\/A><\/p>\n

Excerpts:<\/p>\n

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A cycloid is the curve generated by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls on a straight line in its plane.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/form>\n

The Conical Helix<\/p>\n

The conical helix is a three-dimensional curve formed as if lying on a right circular cone, where it cuts the generators of the surface at a constant angle a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Origins of numbers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}