A Course in Modern Geometries (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) - Hardcover

Cederberg, Judith N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387989722 ISBN 13: 9780387989723

Publisher: Springer, 2001

Synopsis

Designed for a junior-senior level course for mathematics majors, including those who plan to teach in secondary school. The first chapter presents several finite geometries in an axiomatic framework, while Chapter 2 continues the synthetic approach in introducing both Euclids and ideas of non-Euclidean geometry. There follows a new introduction to symmetry and hands-on explorations of isometries that precedes an extensive analytic treatment of similarities and affinities. Chapter 4 presents plane projective geometry both synthetically and analytically, and the new Chapter 5 uses a descriptive and exploratory approach to introduce chaos theory and fractal geometry, stressing the self-similarity of fractals and their generation by transformations from Chapter 3. Throughout, each chapter includes a list of suggested resources for applications or related topics in areas such as art and history, plus this second edition points to Web locations of author-developed guides for dynamic software explorations of the Poincaré model, isometries, projectivities, conics and fractals. Parallel versions are available for "Cabri Geometry" and "Geometers Sketchpad".

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Review:

Second Edition

J. N. Cederberg

A Course in Modern Geometries

"Cederberg’s book has the virtue of exceptionally clear exposition and at the same time, it is brief enough not to exhaust one’s patience . . . I have seen hundreds of college-level texts on geometry and this is one of the handful I like the most."

―THE UMAP JOURNAL

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0387989722
• ISBN 13: 9780387989723
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 460