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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521597870

ISBN-139780521597876

eBay Product ID (ePID)898820

Product Key Features

Number of Pages512 Pages

Publication NameGeometry

LanguageEnglish

SubjectGeometry / General, Topology

Publication Year1999

TypeTextbook

AuthorMatthew F. Esplen, Jeremy J. Gray, David A. Brannan

Subject AreaMathematics

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight32.2 Oz

Item Length9.7 in

Item Width7.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN97-018015

Reviews' â€¦ this is a remarkable and nicely written introduction to classical geometry.' Zentralblatt MATH, "There are many things to like about this book. It conveys the beauty and excitement of the subject, avoiding the dryness of many geometry texts. I was very pleased to see the classification of conics developed in Chapters 1 through 4...The effort put in on the problems and answers is very impressive...The language is clear, with little to fear from Anglicisms...presentation is clean and pleasing to the eye...it raised in me a desire to teach elementary geometry again, something I have not felt or done in years." MAA Online, ' â€¦ could form the basis of courses in geometry for mathematics undergraduates. It will also appeal to the general mathematical reader.' John Stone, Times Higher Education Supplement, ‘This is a textbook that demonstrates the excitement and beauty of geometry … richly illstrated and clearly written.’Extrait de L’Enseignement Mathématique, 'This is a textbook that demonstrates the excitement and beauty of geometry ... richly illstrated and clearly written.' Extrait de L'Enseignement Mathématique, ‘ … could form the basis of courses in geometry for mathematics undergraduates. It will also appeal to the general mathematical reader.’John Stone, Times Higher Education Supplement, 'This is a textbook that demonstrates the excitement and beauty of geometry â€¦ richly illstrated and clearly written.' Extrait de L'Enseignement Mathmatique, "...an excellent and precisely written textbook that should be studied in depth by all would-be mathematicians." Mathematical Reviews, ' ... could form the basis of courses in geometry for mathematics undergraduates. It will also appeal to the general mathematical reader.' John Stone, Times Higher Education Supplement

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal516

Table Of ContentPreface; Introduction; 1. Conics; 2. Affine geometry; 3. Projective geometry: lines; 4. Projective geometry: conics; 5. Inversive geometry; 6. Non-Euclidean geometry; 7. Spherical geometry; 8. The Kleinian view of geometry; Appendices; Index.

SynopsisThis is a textbook that reveals the intricacies of geometry. It is richly illustrated and clearly written, and it includes full solutions to over 200 problems. Thus it is suitable both for undergraduate courses on geometry and as a resource for self study., This is an undergraduate textbook that reveals the intricacies of geometry. The approach used is that a geometry is a space together with a set of transformations of that space (as argued by Klein in his Erlangen programme). The authors explore various geometries: affine, projective, inversive, non-Euclidean and spherical. In each case the key results are explained carefully, and the relationships between the geometries are discussed. This richly illustrated and clearly written text includes full solutions to over 200 problems, and is suitable both for undergraduate courses on geometry and as a resource for self study.

LC Classification NumberQA445 .B688 1999