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Designed for a junior-senior level course for mathematics majors, including those who plan to teach in secondary school. The first chapter presents several finite geometries in an axiomatic framework, while Chapter 2 continues the synthetic approach in introducing both Euclids and ideas of non-Euclidean geometry. There follows a new introduction to symmetry and hands-on explorations of isometries that precedes an extensive analytic treatment of similarities and affinities. Chapter 4 presents plane projective geometry both synthetically and analytically, and 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. Throughout, each chapter includes a list of suggested resources for applications or related topics in areas such as art and history, plus this second edition points to Web locations of author-developed guides for dynamic software explorations of the Poincaré model, isometries, projectivities, conics and fractals. Parallel versions are available for "Cabri Geometry" and "Geometers Sketchpad".

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Mathematics Geometry

• Full title: Course in Modern Geometries
• Author: Judith N. Cederberg
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 441
• EAN: 9781441931931
• ISBN: 1441931937
• ID: 01421856
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Weight: 700 g
• Dimensions: 158 × 234 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2010

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