Geometry in our daily lives.



Geometry, for me, is one of the most useful of all branches of mathematics. Carpenters, engineers, architects, and for me, as an Interior Designer, all need to know geometry so that the things that they build will look pleasing and will function properly.

Navigators on ships and airplanes also use geometry to guide them across the distances. Artists (like me) use geometry to make their two-dimensional painting looks real. Surveyors marking the boundaries of property use geometry. Everywhere that shapes and lines are important, geometry is used.

We use geometry in our daily lives, but do we all know where it originated?

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Resources

Hofstadter, D. R. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. New York: Vintage Books, pp. 88-92, 1989.

Katz, Victor J. (1998), History of Mathematics: An Introduction, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0321016181, OCLC 60154481 38199387 60154481
Stillwell, John (2004), Berlin and New York: Mathematics and its History (2 ed.), Springer, 568 pages, ISBN 0387953361
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