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Plane and Fancy offers students a 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 leads to different …
Geometry: Plane and Fancy, 1998th Edition
Plane and Fancy
- Hardcover
162 pages
- Release Date
9 January 1998
Summary
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 th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780387983066 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0387983066 |
| Author: | David A. Singer |
| Publisher: | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Imprint: | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 162 |
| Edition: | 1998th |
| Release Date: | 9 January 1998 |
| Weight: | 940g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm |
| Series: | Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics |
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