Geometry
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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,…
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Key features
- Students respond to the authors' modern, easy-to-read writing style
- Assumes basic knowledge of group theory and linear algebra but a rapid review of both topics is given in appendices
- Historical notes, teaching comments and diagrams feature in the margins
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003001
- Subjects Geometry and Topology,Mathematics
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 13 February 2012
- ISBN: 9781107647831
- Dimensions (mm): 246 x 189 mm
- Weight: 1.28kg
- Contains: 750 b/w illus. 200 exercises
- Page extent: 602 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 05 June 2012
- ISBN: 9781139003001
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