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An edition of Geometry: Plane and Fancy (1998)

Geometry: Plane and Fancy

GEOMETRY: Plane and Fancy offers students a fascinating tour through parts of geometry they are unlikely to see in the rest of their studies while, at the same time, anchoring their excursions to the well known parallel postulate of Euclid. The author shows how alternatives to Euclid's fifth postulate lead to interesting and different patterns and symmetries. In the process of examining geometric objects, the author incorporates the algebra of complex (and hypercomplex) numbers, some graph theory, and some topology. Nevertheless, the book has only mild prerequisites. Readers are assumed to have had a course in Euclidean geometry (including some analytic geometry and some algebra) at the high school level. While many concepts introduced are advanced, the mathematical techniques are not. Singer's lively exposition and off-beat approach will greatly appeal both to students and mathematicians. Interesting problems are nicely scattered throughout the text. The contents of the book can be covered in a one-semester course, perhaps as a sequel to a Euclidean geometry course.

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English
Pages
159

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Geometry: Plane and Fancy
1998, Springer New York, Imprint, Springer
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Published in
New York, NY
Series
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, 0172-6056, Undergraduate texts in mathematics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
516
Library of Congress
QA440-699

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Format
[electronic resource] /
Pagination
1 online resource (X, 159 pages 118 illustrations).
Number of pages
159

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27041056M
Internet Archive
geometryplanefan00sing
ISBN 10
1461206073
ISBN 13
9781461206071
OCLC/WorldCat
840277879

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