comments - Ernest Irving Freese's Geometric Transformations
When my book appeared in January 2018,
David Bailey made a succinct comment on his webpage:
"At last, after no less than 60 years, Freese's work is shown in its entirety!"
"World adventurer before settling down as a Los Angeles architect, Freese (1886-1957) completed a manuscript of geometric transformations just before he died. It was not until 2003 that Frederickson was able to track down the manuscript, forgotten in family papers, and bring it to light. After chapters on the history of geometric dissection and on Freese's life and work, he presents Freese's original 200 plates with original and added commentary. They cover such figures as isosceles triangles, decagons and decagrams, many-sided polygons, and special triangles."
Anne's self-identification: " (I am) an American graduate student in historical theology - I've had my own moments with finding rare manuscripts, one of which I want to try to publish, even if I only get a few interested readers... I'm looking forward to all the possibilities."
Here is a link to
her review.
Some of Anne's observations:
"This book is truly amazing and I'm really happy with it... I anticipate having years worth of material to go through in depth with this book, one dissection at a time."
"3D printing is amazing for math models!"
Last updated March 8, 2021.