Martin Gardner, who wrote for Scientific American. among others: Mathematical Carnival, Mathematical Circus, etc. They had various logical puzzles with explanations given. Gardner had a smooth and erudite style, something like Isaac Asimov in his many science Fact articles- such as in TV guide.
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Euclid's Elements is a mathematical and geometric treatiseconsisting of 13 books written by the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egyptc. 300 BC. It is a collection of definitions, postulates (axioms), propositions (theoremsand constructions), and mathematical proofs of the propositions.
a collection of definitions, postulates (axioms), propositions (theoremsand constructions), and mathematical proofs of the propositions.
He created the Venn diagram and wrote books about what he did.
he wrote them in his note books. He carried them where ever he went on his belt!
Johannes Kepler wrote several books in his lifetime. Some of his books are Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World, Selections from Kepler's Astronomia Nova, and The Six-Cornered Snowflake.