Eurospan jun 2016 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. Richard Savage (1697--1743) was a poet, playwright, and satirist who claimed to be the illegitimate son of a late earl and to have been denied his inheritance and viciously persecuted by his mother. He was urbane, charming, a brilliant conversationalist, but also irresponsible and impulsive. His role in a tavern brawl almost led him to the gallows, though his life was saved by an eleventh-hour pardon by the King. Over time he attracted many supporters, practically all of whom he managed to alienate by the time of his death in a debtors' prison in Bristol. Johnson, who had been friends with Savage for a little over a year, drew on published documents and his own memories of Savage to produce one of the first great English biographies.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Classical Euclidean geometry, with all its triangles, circles, and inscribed angles, remains an excellent playground for high-school mathematics students. This book contains more than 750 (mostly) easy but non-trivial problems in all areas of plane geometry and solutions for most of them, as well as additional problems for self-study. Each chapter also provides concise reminders of basic notions used in the chapter.…