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Re: God geometry textbooks
Posted:
Jul 12, 2001 2:04 AM
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From: Neal Silverman <NealAgMan@aol.com>
> Subject: God geometry textbooks
Boy, I hope that was a typo, or I'm *way* out of my depth... :-)
> I agree...as to Welchons-Krickenberger. > > <SNIP> > > (They also had a book called Trigonometry w/ Tables, circa 1953, which > Pearson revised in 1962 as "Modern Trigonometry".)
The copy of Trigonometry with Tables that I have (not the copy I studied from, but the copy my sister studied from three years later) has an initial copyright date of 1954 and a second copyright date of 1957. In the days when I studied from it, I wasn't in the business of criticizing texts, and really had nothing to compare it with. Later on, it seemed to me to be a competent job, but not outstanding. The book itself did not inspire me; the content did--and would have from any book. Perhaps most telling, I rarely refer to it for either problems or content, though I frequently have done so with the elementary calculus text I used for two years beginning only a year later than I studied from WK.
-Lou Talman
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