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  Andrew2565
  Joint author here.I plan to upload the entire book as a single PDF when I finish the next chapter (on the cycloid). That will probably be early next week.I used the original book by Arthur Engel for many years. He was an inspirational teacher.The MAA tried very hard to publish the book, but I kept adding new material, and a text consisting of math 'selections' rather than a single theme is a hard sell in today's publishing environment.
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  zkmon
  It is painful to imagine how these fantastic works will be not be read by humans in future, as AI would digest all this and provide just-in-time code for humans.
• efavdb
  Looks like a treasure trove of knowledge.I just recently went to the exploratorium in SF and saw an exhibit there suggesting that the catenary made a good arch, so browsed that chapter and saw a bit of explanation here which helped. Was also interested to see that Jefferson played some part in the history here.
• urutom
  I own the original Exploring Mathematics with Your Computer(Turbo Pascal version). It’s an excellent introduction to algorithms for people coming from a mathematics background. Really happy to see it revived in Python.
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  rramadass
  Very Nice!However, I don't see the entire book as a single pdf?
• fnord77
  Very nice. I was looking for something fun to work on over the break. Thank you for this.> Unfortunately, after lengthy discussions with the MAA, my hopes of publishing this (rather large) expansion have proved impossible, and so I've decided to put it online, hopefully to be of use to others.Too bad