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Explore a city where shortest distance isn’t always a straight line.
Taxicab Geometry
adventure in non-euclidean geometry
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96 pages
- Release Date
1 February 1988
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Summary
Taxicab Geometry: A New Angle on Distance
Fascinating and accessible introduction to an unusual mathematical system where distance isn’t measured in straight lines. Explore illustrated topics including applications to urban geography and comparisons to Euclidean geometry. Selected answers to problems are provided.
This stimulating textbook offers undergraduate math students, advanced high school students, and puzzle fans a chance to explore taxicab geometry, a simple, non-Eu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780486252025 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0486252027 |
| Series: | Dover Books on Mathema 1.4tics |
| Author: | Eugene F. Krause |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 1988 |
| Weight: | 142g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 136mm x 7mm |
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