Beautiful Geometry, by Maor and Jost

[essentialsaltes]

A handsome book that mixes art and math. Maor is a historian of mathematics, and Jost is an artist. Together, they fight crime. Er, no. Together, they explain and illustrate a number of geometric (and broader mathematical) ideas. These kind of math/art mashups tend to be kind of lame, but this book has a pretty good batting average of art that

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[freudinshade]

Is it written at a level that LB could grok? He's able to handle pretty sophisticated concepts in math if they're laid out well for him.

[essentialsaltes]

It's certainly not written at a mega-high math level, but having taken high school geometry (or being exposed to Euclidean style geometry proofs) would be a big help, I think.

[essentialsaltes]

You're welcome to borrow it if we see you Friday.

[freudinshade]

Sounds good. We haven't figured out our schedule but we're planning to come for at least part of the evening.