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Geometry Through History: Euclidean, Hyperbolic, and Projective Geometries

Geometry Through History: Euclidean, Hyperbolic, and Projective Geometries

Dillon, Meighan I.

Paperback

General MathematicsGeometry

ISBN10: 3030089231
ISBN13: 9783030089238
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jan 26 2019
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.60 Width: 9.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Presented as an engaging discourse, this textbook invites readers to delve into the historical origins and uses of geometry. The narrative traces the influence of Euclid's system of geometry, as developed in his classic text The Elements, through the Arabic period, the modern era in the West, and up to twentieth century mathematics. Axioms and proof methods used by mathematicians from those periods are explored alongside the problems in Euclidean geometry that lead to their work. Students cultivate skills applicable to much of modern mathematics through sections that integrate concepts like projective and hyperbolic geometry with representative proof-based exercises.

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