Modern Geometries by James R. Smart

By James R. Smart

This accomplished, best-selling textual content specializes in the examine of many various geometries -- instead of a unmarried geometry -- and is punctiliously glossy in its strategy. each one bankruptcy is basically a quick direction on one point of recent geometry, together with finite geometries, the geometry of adjustments, convexity, complex Euclidian geometry, inversion, projective geometry, geometric points of topology, and non-Euclidean geometries. This version displays the suggestions of the COMAP court cases on Geometry's destiny, the NCTM criteria, and the pro criteria for instructing arithmetic. References to a brand new better half textual content, energetic Geometry by way of David A. Thomas motivate scholars to discover the geometry of movement by using software program. utilizing lively Geometry at first of assorted sections permits professors to provide scholars a a little bit extra intuitive creation utilizing present know-how earlier than relocating directly to extra summary strategies and theorems.

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