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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
Fascinating, accessible introduction to unusual mathematical system in which distance is not measured by straight lines. Illustrated topics include applications to urban geography and comparisons to Euclidean geometry. Selected answers to problems.
This entertaining, stimulating textbook offers anyone familiar with Euclidean geometry - undergraduate math students, advanced high school students, and puzzle fans of any age - an opportunity to explore taxicab geometry, a simple, non-Eucl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780486252025 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0486252027 |
| 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: | 7mm x 140mm x 220mm |
| Series: | Dover Books on Mathema 1.4tics |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
140 × 220 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
A4210 × 297 mm
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