Geometry
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Geometry
Cambridge University Press , Open University, c2012
2nd ed
- : pbk.
Available at / 11 libraries
-
Hokkaido University, Library, Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science and School of Science数学
: pbk./B 7352080289854
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This richly illustrated and clearly written undergraduate textbook captures the excitement and beauty of geometry. The approach is that of Klein in his Erlangen programme: a geometry is a space together with a set of transformations of the space. The authors explore various geometries: affine, projective, inversive, hyperbolic and elliptic. In each case they carefully explain the key results and discuss the relationships between the geometries. New features in this second edition include concise end-of-chapter summaries to aid student revision, a list of further reading and a list of special symbols. The authors have also revised many of the end-of-chapter exercises to make them more challenging and to include some interesting new results. Full solutions to the 200 problems are included in the text, while complete solutions to all of the end-of-chapter exercises are available in a new Instructors' Manual, which can be downloaded from www.cambridge.org/9781107647831.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: geometry and geometries
- 1. Conics
- 2. Affine geometry
- 3. Projective geometry: lines
- 4. Projective geometry: conics
- 5. Inversive geometry
- 6. Hyperbolic geometry: the disc model
- 7. Elliptic geometry: the spherical model
- 8. The Kleinian view of geometry
- Special symbols
- Further reading
- Appendix 1. A primer of group theory
- Appendix 2. A primer of vectors and vector spaces
- Appendix 3. Solutions to the problems
- Index.
by "Nielsen BookData"
