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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The quadrivium--the classical curriculum--comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. Geometry is number in space; music is number in time; and comology expresses number in space and time. Number, music, and geometry are metaphysical truths: life across the universe investigates them; they foreshadow the physical sciences. Quadrivium...
6) Rectangles
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text and illustrations draw attention to rectangles that are found in the world around us.
Author
Series
Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library volume no. 4
Publisher
Mathematical Association of America
Pub. Date
1961
Language
English
Author
Series
Annals of mathematics studies volume 171
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
This video tells how the Pythagorean Theorem has been used for thousands of years to solve practical problems. Through examples found in the world around us, see how to manipulate the theorem to find the length of any side of a right triangle when the lengths of the other two sides are known.