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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.
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> <SNIP>
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> (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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