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001 2011030683
003 DLC
005 20120329085536.0
008 110725s2012 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011030683
020 $a9781107647831 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQA445$b.B688 2012
082 00 $a516$223
084 $aMAT038000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aBrannan, D. A.
245 10 $aGeometry /$cDavid A. Brannan, Matthew F. Esplen, Jeremy J. Gray.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
300 $axiv, 587 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
520 $a"This richly illustrated and clearly written undergraduate textbook captures the excitement and beauty of geometry. The approach is that of Klein in his Erlangen programme: a geometry is a space together with a set of transformations of the space. The authors explore various geometries: affine, projective, inversive, hyperbolic and elliptic. In each case they carefully explain the key results and discuss the relationships between the geometries. New features in this second edition include concise end-of-chapter summaries to aid student revision, a list of further reading and a list of special symbols. The authors have also revised many of the end-of-chapter exercises to make them more challenging and to include some interesting new results. Full solutions to the 200 problems are included in the text, while complete solutions to all of the end-of-chapter exercises are available in a new Instructors' Manual, which can be downloaded from www.cambridge.org/9781107647831"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical resources and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 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.
650 0 $aGeometry.
650 7 $aMATHEMATICS / Topology$2bisacsh.
700 1 $aEsplen, Matthew F.
700 1 $aGray, Jeremy,$d1947-
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811076/47831/cover/9781107647831.jpg