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Exploring Geometry (Textbooks in Mathematics) - Softcover

Book 38 of 130: Textbooks in Mathematics

Hvidsten, Michael

 
9781032477060: Exploring Geometry (Textbooks in Mathematics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1032477067 ISBN 13: 9781032477060
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2023

Synopsis

Exploring Geometry, Second Edition promotes student engagement with the beautiful ideas of geometry. Every major concept is introduced in its historical context and connects the idea with real-life. A system of experimentation followed by rigorous explanation and proof is central. Exploratory projects play an integral role in this text. Students develop a better sense of how to prove a result and visualize connections between statements, making these connections real. They develop the intuition needed to conjecture a theorem and devise a proof of what they have observed.

Features:

  • Second edition of a successful textbook for the first undergraduate course

  • Every major concept is introduced in its historical context and connects the idea with real life

  • Focuses on experimentation

  • Projects help enhance student learning

  • All major software programs can be used; free software from author

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    About the Author

    Michael Hvidsten is Professor of Mathematics at Gustavus Adlophus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois. His research interests include minimal surfaces, computer graphics and scientific visualizations, and software development. Geometry Explorer software is available free from his website.

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    Publisher
    Chapman and Hall/CRC
    Publication date
    2023
    Language
    English
    ISBN 10 
    1032477067
    ISBN 13 
    9781032477060
    Binding
    Paperback
    Edition number
    2
    Number of pages
    558