Geometry: Plane and Fancy
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Beschreibung
GEOMETRY: Plane and Fancy offers students a fascinating tour through parts of geometry they are unlikely to see in the rest of their studies while, at the same time, anchoring their excursions to the well known parallel postulate of Euclid. The author shows how alternatives to Euclid's fifth postulate lead to interesting and different patterns and symmetries. In the process of examining geometric objects, the author incorporates the algebra of complex (and hypercomplex) numbers, some graph theory, and some topology. Nevertheless, the book has only mild prerequisites. Readers are assumed to have had a course in Euclidean geometry (including some analytic geometry and some algebra) at the high school level. While many concepts introduced are advanced, the mathematical techniques are not. Singer's lively exposition and off-beat approach will greatly appeal both to students and mathematicians. Interesting problems are nicely scattered throughout the text. The contents of the book can be covered in a one-semester course, perhaps as a sequel to a Euclidean geometry course.
This book offers students a fascinating tour through parts of geometry they are unlikely to see in the rest of their studies. Lively exposition and off-beat approach. Covers many topics in geometry not found in other introductions to the subject. No calculus is assumed; book written at an elementary level. Interesting problems are nicely scattered throughout.
GEOMETRY: Plane and Fancy offers students a fascinating tour through parts of geometry they are unlikely to see in the rest of their studies while, at the same time, anchoring their excursions to the well known parallel postulate of Euclid. The author shows how alternatives to Euclid's fifth postulate leads to interesting and different patterns and symmetries.
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David A. Singer
Themen in »Geometry: Plane and Fancy«
Non-Euclidean Geometry analytic geometry boundary element method complex number fractal graph graph theory object polygon proving symmetric relation techniques time topology transformation group