Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Geometry

Felix Klein

ISBN 10: 0486434818 / ISBN 13: 9780486434810

Published by Dover Publications, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Geometry
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486434818
• ISBN 13: 9780486434810
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

"Nothing comparable to it." — Mathematics Teacher. This comprehensive three-part treatment begins with a consideration of the simplest geometric manifolds: line-segment, area, and volume as relative magnitudes; the Grassmann determinant principle for the plane and the Grassmann principle for space; classification of the elementary configurations of space according to their behavior under transformation of rectangular coordinates; and derivative manifolds. The second section, on geometric transformations, examines affine and projective transformations; higher point transformations; transformations with change of space element; and the theory of the imaginary. The text concludes with a systematic discussion of geometry and its foundations. 1939 edition. 141 figures.