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An edition of A Course in Modern Geometries (2001)

A Course in Modern Geometries

Second Edition.

A Course in Modern Geometries is designed for a junior-senior level course for mathematics majors, including those who plan to teach in secondary school. Chapter 1 presents several finite geometries in an axiomatic framework. Chapter 2 continues the synthetic approach as it introduces Euclid's geometry and ideas of non-Euclidean geometry. In Chapter 3, a new introduction to symmetry and hands-on explorations of isometries precedes the extensive analytic treatment of isometries, similarities and affinities. A new concluding section explores isometries of space. Chapter 4 presents plane projective geometry both synthetically and analytically. The extensive use of matrix representations of groups of transformations in Chapters 3-4 reinforces ideas from linear algebra and serves as excellent preparation for a course in abstract algebra. The new Chapter 5 uses a descriptive and exploratory approach to introduce chaos theory and fractal geometry, stressing the self-similarity of fractals and their generation by transformations from Chapter 3. Each chapter includes a list of suggested resources for applications or related topics in areas such as art and history. The second edition also includes pointers to the web location of author-developed guides for dynamic software explorations of the Poincaré model, isometries, projectivities, conics and fractals. Parallel versions of these explorations are available for "Cabri Geometry" and "Geometer's Sketchpad". Judith N. Cederberg is an associate professor of mathematics at St. Olaf College in Minnesota.

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Springer New York
Language
English
Pages
444

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Course in Modern Geometries
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2001, Springer New York
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Table of Contents

Axiomatic systems and finite geometries
Non-Euclidean geometry
Geometric transformations of the Euclidean plane
Projective geometry
Chaos to symmetry: an introduction to fractal geometry.

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New York, NY
Series
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Undergraduate texts in mathematics

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Dewey Decimal Class
516
Library of Congress
QA440-699

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[electronic resource] /
Pagination
1 online resource (xix, 444 p.)
Number of pages
444

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OL27027760M
ISBN 10
1441931937, 1475734905
ISBN 13
9781441931931, 9781475734904
OCLC/WorldCat
851784153

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OL19838347W

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