The Facts On File Geometry Handbook (Facts on File Science Library)

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.

Biographies include:

• Fillipo Brunelleschi
• Shiing-Shen Chern
• M. C. Escher
• Fibonacci
• Hippocrates of Chios
• Emmy Noether
• Blaise Pascal
• Marjorie Senechal
• Zu Chongzhi.

Tables, charts, and diagrams include:

• Antiprism
• Conic sections
• Curvalinear figures and solids
• Fano Configuration
• Golden spiral
• Greek alphabet
• Polygons
• Tangent
• Trigonometric functions
• Trigonometric tables.

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.