A Course in Modern Geometries is designed for a junior-senior level course for mathematics majors, including those who plan to teach in secondary school. Chapter 1 presents several finite geometries in an axiomatic framework. Chapter 2 continues the synthetic approach as it introduces Euclid's geometry and ideas of non-Euclidean geometry. In Chapter 3, a new introduction to symmetry and hands-on explorations of isometries precedes the extensive analytic treatment of isometries, similarities and affinities. A new concluding section explores isometries of space. Chapter 4 presents plane projective geometry
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Second Edition
J. N. Cederberg
A Course in Modern Geometries
"Cederberg's book has the virtue of exceptionally clear exposition and at the same time, it is brief enough not to exhaust one's patience . . . I have seen hundreds of college-level texts on geometry and this is one of the handful I like the most."
-THE UMAP JOURNAL
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Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Lower undergraduate
Editions-Typ
Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 26 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-387-98972-3 (9780387989723)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4757-3490-4
Schweitzer Klassifikation
1 Axiomatic Systems and Finite Geometries.- 2 Non-Euclidean Geometry.- 3 Geometric Transformations of the Euclidean Plane.- 4 Projective Geometry.- 5 Chaos to Symmetry: An Introduction to Fractal Geometry.- Appendices.- B Hilbert's Axioms for Plane Geometry.- C Birkhoff's Postulates for Euclidean Plane Geometry.- D The SMSG Postulates for Euclidean Geometry.- E Some SMSG Definitions for Euclidean Geometry.- F The ASA Theorem.- References.
