Geometry - Softcover

Brannan, David A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107647835 ISBN 13: 9781107647831

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

This richly illustrated and clearly written undergraduate textbook captures the excitement and beauty of geometry. The approach is that of Klein in his Erlangen programme: a geometry is a space together with a set of transformations of the space. The authors explore various geometries: affine, projective, inversive, hyperbolic and elliptic. In each case they carefully explain the key results and discuss the relationships between the geometries. New features in this second edition include concise end-of-chapter summaries to aid student revision, a list of further reading and a list of special symbols. The authors have also revised many of the end-of-chapter exercises to make them more challenging and to include some interesting new results. Full solutions to the 200 problems are included in the text, while complete solutions to all of the end-of-chapter exercises are available in a new Instructors' Manual, which can be downloaded from www.cambridge.org/9781107647831.

About this title

About the Author

David A. Brannan is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computing at The Open University, Milton Keynes. Matthew F. Esplen is a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at The Open University, Milton Keynes. Jeremy J. Gray is a Professor of the History of Mathematics at The Open University, Milton Keynes and Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107647835
• ISBN 13: 9781107647831
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 602