A New Look At Geometry
by Irving Adler · first published 1966
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…one, it says that "three formulas have been developed to calculate the total area under a curve", and then lists the works in which the formulas are given. One of the works listed is Irving Adler's A New Look at Geometry, which is a math book accessible to readers with a high school education (it's good book by the way — the MAA has given it a rating of BLL [3]). But Adler's name is misspelled "Alder" in the article and…
on “Great Scientist ≠ Good at Math” ↗…it contains the following: > Three formulas have been developed by Alder (3), Vecchio et al. (4), and Wolever et al. (5) to calculate the total area under a curve [3] Alder I: A New Look at Geometry. New York, The John Day Company, 1966. This book is in turn available in archive.org: https://archive.org/details/B-001-001-934/page/n269/mode/2up So basically the author in question didn't even…
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