Geometry: Plane and FancySpringer Science & Business Media, 6 Δεκ 2012 - 162 σελίδες 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. |
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Σελίδα v
... Chapter 5 , so it is possible to skip some or all of this . But I think that would be a mistake . While the ideas in that chapter are advanced , the mathematical techniques are not . For me , that chapter was the main reason for writing ...
... Chapter 5 , so it is possible to skip some or all of this . But I think that would be a mistake . While the ideas in that chapter are advanced , the mathematical techniques are not . For me , that chapter was the main reason for writing ...
Σελίδα vi
... Chapter 2 proceeds from the assumption that the angle sum is al- ways 180 ° . We consider the process of tiling the plane with regular poly- gons . Section 2.1 sets up the machinery of isometries and transformation groups . In Section ...
... Chapter 2 proceeds from the assumption that the angle sum is al- ways 180 ° . We consider the process of tiling the plane with regular poly- gons . Section 2.1 sets up the machinery of isometries and transformation groups . In Section ...
Σελίδα vii
... Chapter 6 is a brief , nontechnical , discussion of how all of the ideas of the previous chapters can be blended together into a more general notion of geometry . The sum of the angles is used to quantify the curvature of a piece of ...
... Chapter 6 is a brief , nontechnical , discussion of how all of the ideas of the previous chapters can be blended together into a more general notion of geometry . The sum of the angles is used to quantify the curvature of a piece of ...
Σελίδα viii
... Chapter 2 Tiling the Plane with Regular Polygons 2.1 Isometries and Transformation Groups 2.2 Regular and ... Chapter 3 Geometry of the Hyperbolic Plane 48 3.1 The Poincaré disc and Isometries of the Hyperbolic Plane 3.2 Tessellations of ...
... Chapter 2 Tiling the Plane with Regular Polygons 2.1 Isometries and Transformation Groups 2.2 Regular and ... Chapter 3 Geometry of the Hyperbolic Plane 48 3.1 The Poincaré disc and Isometries of the Hyperbolic Plane 3.2 Tessellations of ...
Σελίδα ix
... Gauss - Bonnet Theorem 121 Chapter 6 Geometry of Space 131 6.1 A Hint of Riemannian Geometry 131 6.2 What Is Curvature ? 141 6.3 From Euclid to Einstein 146 References 155 1 CHAPTER Euclid and Non - Euclid 1.1 The Postulates X Contents.
... Gauss - Bonnet Theorem 121 Chapter 6 Geometry of Space 131 6.1 A Hint of Riemannian Geometry 131 6.2 What Is Curvature ? 141 6.3 From Euclid to Einstein 146 References 155 1 CHAPTER Euclid and Non - Euclid 1.1 The Postulates X Contents.
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Tiling the Plane with Regular Polygons | 21 |
Geometry of the Hyperbolic Plane | 48 |
Geometry of the Sphere | 74 |
More Geometry of the Sphere | 105 |
Geometry of Space | 131 |
References | 155 |
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