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A Course in Modern Geometries

A Course in Modern Geometries

by Judith N. Cederberg
Hardback
Publication Date: 29/11/2000

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Designed for a junior-senior level course for mathematics majors, including those who plan to teach in secondary school. The first chapter presents several finite geometries in an axiomatic framework, while Chapter 2 continues the synthetic approach in introducing both Euclids and ideas of non-Euclidean geometry. There follows a new introduction to symmetry and hands-on explorations of isometries that precedes an extensive analytic treatment of similarities and affinities. Chapter 4 presents plane projective geometry both synthetically and analytically, and the new Chapter 5 uses a descriptive and exploratory approach to introduce chaos theory and fractal geometry, stressing the self-similarity of fractals and their generation by transformations from Chapter 3. Throughout, each chapter includes a list of suggested resources for applications or related topics in areas such as art and history, plus this second edition points to Web locations of author-developed guides for dynamic software explorations of the Poincare model, isometries, projectivities, conics and fractals. Parallel versions are available for "Cabri Geometry" and "Geometers Sketchpad".
ISBN:
9780387989723
9780387989723
Category:
Geometry
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
29-11-2000
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Country of origin:
United States
Edition:
2nd Edition
Pages:
441
Dimensions (mm):
235x155x25mm
Weight:
1.83kg

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