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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Glen van Brummelen has prepared a highly recommended, accessible and definitive history of the subject that will serve as a resource for scholars for decades to come."
---Daniel Otero, MAA Reviews"
The Doctrine of Triangles is an informative and valuable reference work.
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---Wallace A Ferguson, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications"A guided tour through the museum of mathematics. . . . [
The Doctrine of Triangles] takes the history of trigonometry, which is a formidable subject in its scope and size, and transforms it into something readable."
---Daniel Mansfield, The Mathematical Intelligencer"Very easy to read, and there are lots of helpful diagrams, especially for the spherical trigonometry . . . [The Doctrine of Triangles] is deeply enriched by extracts from contemporary texts, given first in fairly literal English translations, often accompanied by the original diagrams, and then explained in modern terms. So mathematical readers (and, I hope, their students) can experience a little of what trigonometry was actually like at each stage in its history."
---John Hannah, Aestimatio
