Bob Miller's Geometry for the Clueless
Published on 9. June 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-07-136109-5 (ISBN)
Description
Directly tackling the topics which often cause trouble for students, this text explains them in familiar terms. Bob Miller's cartoon alter ego is the guide to this course of study.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
100 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 180 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-136109-5 (9780071361095)
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Bob Miller (East Brunswick, NJ) has been a lecturer in Mathematics at City College of New York, a branch of the City University of New York, for more than twenty-eight years.
Content
Chapter 1: The Basics: Undefined Words, Some Defined Words, Axioms, and Postulates.
Chapter 2: The Beginnings of Proofs.
Chapter 3: Parallel Lines, Forever Together.
Chapter 4: Mostly Triangles.
Chapter 5: Secrets of Proving Triangles Congruent.
Chapter 6: Similar Figures and Pythagoras Lives!!!!
Chapter 7: Quadrilaterals Squarely Done.
Chapter 8: Interior and Exterior Angles.
Chapter 9: Areal Search and Securing the Perimeter.
Chapter 10: Volumes and Surface Areas.
Chapter 11: Circle One.
Chapter 12: Lines (the Straight Kind) and Parabolas (not Straight).
Chapter 13: Distance Formula, Midpoint, Circle Two, and Analytic Geometry Proofs.
Chapter 14: Functions, Translations, Stretches, Contractions, Flips.
Chapter 15: Parabolas II, Ellipses, and Hyperbolas.
Chapter 16: Right and Not S right-angle Trig, Law of Sines, Law of Cosines.
Chapter 17: Miscellaneous: Locus, Parallel Lines, Larger and Smaller Sides and Angles.
Chapter 18: Always-Sometimes-Never Questions.
Chapter 19: Answers - You Should Always Draw the Picture If You Are Having Problems.
Appendices.
Acknowledgements.
About Bob Miller...in His Own Words.
Index.
Chapter 2: The Beginnings of Proofs.
Chapter 3: Parallel Lines, Forever Together.
Chapter 4: Mostly Triangles.
Chapter 5: Secrets of Proving Triangles Congruent.
Chapter 6: Similar Figures and Pythagoras Lives!!!!
Chapter 7: Quadrilaterals Squarely Done.
Chapter 8: Interior and Exterior Angles.
Chapter 9: Areal Search and Securing the Perimeter.
Chapter 10: Volumes and Surface Areas.
Chapter 11: Circle One.
Chapter 12: Lines (the Straight Kind) and Parabolas (not Straight).
Chapter 13: Distance Formula, Midpoint, Circle Two, and Analytic Geometry Proofs.
Chapter 14: Functions, Translations, Stretches, Contractions, Flips.
Chapter 15: Parabolas II, Ellipses, and Hyperbolas.
Chapter 16: Right and Not S right-angle Trig, Law of Sines, Law of Cosines.
Chapter 17: Miscellaneous: Locus, Parallel Lines, Larger and Smaller Sides and Angles.
Chapter 18: Always-Sometimes-Never Questions.
Chapter 19: Answers - You Should Always Draw the Picture If You Are Having Problems.
Appendices.
Acknowledgements.
About Bob Miller...in His Own Words.
Index.