Introduction to geometry

Author(s)

• Coxeter, H. S. M. (Harold Scott Macdonald)

Bibliographic Information

Introduction to geometry

H.S.M. Coxeter

（Wiley classics library）

J. Wiley & Sons, 1989, c1969

2nd ed

• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 415-417

Includes index

"Wiley classics library edition published 1989"

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This classic work is now available in an unabridged paperback edition. The Second Edition retains all the characterisitcs that made the first edition so popular: brilliant exposition, the flexibility permitted by relatively self-contained chapters, and broad coverage ranging from topics in the Euclidean plane, to affine geometry, projective geometry, differential geometry, and topology. The Second Edition incorporates improvements in the text and in some proofs, takes note of the solution of the 4-color map problem, and provides answers to most of the exercises.

Table of Contents

Part I Triangles 3 Regular Polygons 26 Isometry in the Euclidean Plane 39 Two-Dimensional Crystallography 50 Similarity in the Euclidean Plane 67 Circles and Spheres 77 Isometry and Similarity in Euclidean Space 96 Part II Coordinates 107 Complex Numbers 135 The Five Platonic Solids 148 The Golden Section and Phyllotaxis 160 Part III Ordered Geometry 175 Affine Geometry 191 Projective Geometry 229 Absolute Geometry 263 Hyperbolic Geometry 287 Part IV Differential Geometry of Curves 307 The Tensor Notation 328 Differential Geometry of Surfaces 342 Geodesics 366 Topology of Surfaces 379 Four-Dimensional Geometry 396 Tables 413 References 415 Answers to Exercises 419 Index 459

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Details

• NCID: BA06968919
• ISBN:
  • 0471504580
• LCCN: 72093903
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 469 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QA445
  • DC : 513
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Geometry
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0437390X