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This is the classic book of detailed instructions for making a wide variety of mathematical models of all kinds. Complete nets are given for all regular Archimedean and stellated polyhedra together with a number of interesting compounds. There are sections on paper folding, dissections, curve stitching, linkages, the drawing of loci and envelopes and the construction of plane tessellations.
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This should a compulsory purchase for all school libraries,
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This review is from: Mathematical Models (Paperback)
This is a masterpiece, a jewel. The authors have taken the subject of mathematical models and treated them more comprehensively and approachably than anything else on the subject I have seen. The book is dated in the sense that it is wordy rather than visual and the pictures do not display the benefits of modern graphical representation, but the content cannot be faulted. I started with making the geometrical solids with a group of 14 year olds but soon got interested in the section on mechanical models. I found the instructions and advice easy to follow and to the point. A mathematician's playground and a mathematics teacher's dream!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A timeless classic!,
By Gareth Greenwood "morgol" (Wales, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mathematical Models (Paperback)
Oh the memories that this book brings back! From time to time at my school we had maths exhibitions for which each person in the class made a mathematical model. Almost all of them were based on plans and diagrams in this book. (Alas my masterpiece prismated rhombic dodecahedron got a bit mangled on its way to school :-(
I've never made a mathematical model since but I've often dipped in to this book for sheer pleasure. Making the models described in this book is a far better introduction to geometry than anything else I've seen.
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4.3 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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An Enduring Classic Spanning Time and Ages,
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This review is from: Mathematical Models (Paperback)
My copy of this classic is 37 years old, but the topics are timeless. The focus on physical models, makes the material accessible to even elemetary school students (that's when I first saw the book) but interesting to adults. The models cover 2 dimensional ones with contructing various curves and surface tesselations (think tiling a floor) to three dimensional ones like polyhedra (so that's what a soccer ball is!), conic and toroidal (doughnut) sections to mechanical models like linkages, machines for drawing curves (many of which are used in commerce)and on to rudimentary computing models. In a world where we're too quick to rely on a computer model, these physical representations offer students of all ages a grounding in the physical univerese, where we all actually live. After nearly 40 years, I continue to pull this book off the shelf and refer to it for models to reduce the complex and inaccessible ideas of life to simpler, intuitive models that invite exploration and produce delight and understanding in return
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Clasic work-Highschool level,
By Henry E. Raduazo - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mathematical Models (Paperback)
The fact that this book is in it's third edition and its 14th printing speaks for it's self. It is one of the best general textbooks ever written on the subject of mathimatical models. Best of all it is written at Highschool level so that anyone can read and understand it.
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting but old,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mathematical Models (Paperback)
This book is the 3rd edition(1981) since 1951. Although the printing is new, the contents are old. The angle represent in degree-minute-second. I think the best is help you to make 3-D figure such as Five tetrahedra in a dodecahedron in P.139. If you are a teacher and want to make some 3-D models which name are not known to many people instead of cube or sphere, I think this book is suitable.
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