Bob Miller's Geometry for the Clueless
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 16. November 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-07-145902-0 (ISBN)
Description
An easy-to-use guide that takes the fear out ofgeometry
Bob Miller's Geometry for the Clueless tackles a subjectmore than three million students face every year.Miller acts as a private tutor, painstakingly coveringthe high school curriculum as well as post secondarycourses in geometry.
Bob Miller's Geometry for the Clueless tackles a subjectmore than three million students face every year.Miller acts as a private tutor, painstakingly coveringthe high school curriculum as well as post secondarycourses in geometry.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
451 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-145902-0 (9780071459020)
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Bob Miller's Geometry for the Clueless
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06/2000
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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
What is Geometry? Why Should I Take It?CHAPTER 1
The Basics: Undefined Words, Defined Words, Axioms, and PostulatesCHAPTER 2
The Beginnings of ProofsCHAPTER 3
Improvement of Reasoning: Statement, Converse,Inverse, Contrapositive; Necessary and Sufficient Conditions; If and Only IfCHAPTER 4
Parallel Lines, Forever TogetherCHAPTER 5
Mostly TrianglesCHAPTER 7
Similar Figures and Pythagoras Lives!!!CHAPTER 8
Quadrilaterals Squarely DoneCHAPTER 9
Interior and Exterior AnglesCHAPTER 10
Areal Search & Securing the PerimeterCHAPTER 11
Volumes and Surface AreasCHAPTER 12
Circle ICHAPTER 13 Lines
(The Straight Kind) and Parabolas I (Not Straight)CHAPTER 14
Distance Formula, Midpoint Formula, Circle II,and Analytic Geometry ProofsCHAPTER 15 Functions, Translantions, Stretches, Contractions, and FlipsCHAPTER 16 CHAPTER 17
Right and Not So Right-Angle Trig, Law of Sines, and Law of CosinesCHAPTER 18
ConstructionsCHAPTER 19
Indirect Proofs; Disproving by Counterexample; and Too Much, Just Enough, or Not EnoughCHAPTER 20
Miscellaneous: Locus; Parallel Lines; and Larger and Smaller Sides and AnglesCHAPTER 21
Twenty-First-Century SAT Spin on GeometryCHAPTER 22
Always-Sometimes-Never QuestionsCHAPTER 23
Answers: You Should Always Draw the Picture If You Are Having ProblemsAppendix: A Radical ChapterIndexAcknowlegementAbout Bob Miller... In His Own Words
The Basics: Undefined Words, Defined Words, Axioms, and PostulatesCHAPTER 2
The Beginnings of ProofsCHAPTER 3
Improvement of Reasoning: Statement, Converse,Inverse, Contrapositive; Necessary and Sufficient Conditions; If and Only IfCHAPTER 4
Parallel Lines, Forever TogetherCHAPTER 5
Mostly TrianglesCHAPTER 7
Similar Figures and Pythagoras Lives!!!CHAPTER 8
Quadrilaterals Squarely DoneCHAPTER 9
Interior and Exterior AnglesCHAPTER 10
Areal Search & Securing the PerimeterCHAPTER 11
Volumes and Surface AreasCHAPTER 12
Circle ICHAPTER 13 Lines
(The Straight Kind) and Parabolas I (Not Straight)CHAPTER 14
Distance Formula, Midpoint Formula, Circle II,and Analytic Geometry ProofsCHAPTER 15 Functions, Translantions, Stretches, Contractions, and FlipsCHAPTER 16 CHAPTER 17
Right and Not So Right-Angle Trig, Law of Sines, and Law of CosinesCHAPTER 18
ConstructionsCHAPTER 19
Indirect Proofs; Disproving by Counterexample; and Too Much, Just Enough, or Not EnoughCHAPTER 20
Miscellaneous: Locus; Parallel Lines; and Larger and Smaller Sides and AnglesCHAPTER 21
Twenty-First-Century SAT Spin on GeometryCHAPTER 22
Always-Sometimes-Never QuestionsCHAPTER 23
Answers: You Should Always Draw the Picture If You Are Having ProblemsAppendix: A Radical ChapterIndexAcknowlegementAbout Bob Miller... In His Own Words