Book review of: Glen Van Brummelen, The mathematics of the heavens and the earth. The early history of trigonometry and Glen Van Brummelen, Heavenly mathematics. The forgotten art of spherical trigonometry

DOI10.1007/S00591-013-0126-9MaRDI QIDQ2442653zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Sonar

Publication date 1 April 2014

Published in Mathematische Semesterberichte (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00591-013-0126-9

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Popularization of mathematics (00A09) External book reviews (00A17) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) General histories, source books (01A05) History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of geometry (51-03) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Elementary problems in hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (51M09)

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• Heavenly Mathematics
• Book review of: G. van Brummelen, The doctrine of triangles. A history of modern trigonometry

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