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Praise for the hardcover edition:
"The definitions are clear and easy to understand...useful to teachers...Recommended for academic, public, and some high-school libraries."—Booklist
"...[an] excellent reference book...Highly recommended."—Choice
This volume is the ideal primer for middle and high school students on the subject of geometry. It explains the fundamental concepts, ideas, processes and procedures, and figures that make geometry highly applicable in the world outside the classroom.
Among the topics covered are:
- Analytic geometry
- Beltrami-Klein model
- Cantor set
- Ellipse
- Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
- Hyperbolic cosine
- Kepler-Poinsot solids
- Mystic hexagram theorem
- Obtuse angle
- Penrose tiling
- Quadratic surface.
- Fillipo Brunelleschi
- Shiing-Shen Chern
- M. C. Escher
- Fibonacci
- Hippocrates of Chios
- Emmy Noether
- Blaise Pascal
- Marjorie Senechal
- Zu Chongzhi.
- Antiprism
- Conic sections
- Curvalinear figures and solids
- Fano Configuration
- Golden spiral
- Greek alphabet
- Polygons
- Tangent
- Trigonometric functions
- Trigonometric tables.
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About the Author
Catherine A. Gorini, Ph.D., received her A.B. in mathematics from Cornell University, M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Virginia, and D.W.P. from Maharishi European University. She is Dean of Faculty and Professor of Mathematics at Maharishi University of Management. She is the editor of Geometry at Work and author of Facts On File Geometry Handbook. Her numerous awards for teaching include the Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics from the Mathematical Association of America.
From Booklist
With these titles, Facts On File continues its Science and Math Handbooks series designed to give both beginning and advanced students "quick, direct answers to basic science and math questions." Each consists of four major sections: glossary; biographies; chronology; and charts and tables. There are also appendixes in each, as well as good black-and-white illustrations and photographs. Geometry covers Euclidian and non-Euclidian geometries including projective geometry, affine geometry, vector spaces, knot theory, and topology. Marine Science covers everything having to do with the sea, including navigation, exploration, weather, geology, and creatures.
The glossaries are extensive although not exhaustive. The definitions are clear and easy to understand. The brief biographies are balanced in terms of gender, ethnicity, and specialization. Some have portraits. Charts and tables are well chosen, offering a wide variety of information. Especially helpful are the prefix and suffix charts in Marine Science and the constants, abbreviations, and symbols in Geometry. The recommended reading list in Geometry is more extensive than that in Marine Science and includes Internet sites, multimedia, and teaching resources as well as books at both the introductory and advanced level. The indexes are just adequate and in extremely small print, but the cross-references in the body help make up for that. In every section there are guide words at the top and bottom of each page that include first and last terms on that page.
Some definitions in Geometry Handbook are either too simplistic, too difficult, or confusing. The term amplitude is not defined. The reader is referred to two other terms, but neither definition uses the word amplitude or explains the referral to the term. There are some errors, including phrase duplications at page breaks. Pronunciation guides would have been a good addition.
Both of these handbooks will be useful to teachers. Students will find the Marine Science handbook more accessible than Geometry. Recommended for academic, public, and some high-school libraries. RBB
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