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Explore the foundations of geometry beyond distance and shapes. This volume presents a fresh approach to geometric ideas, prioritizing relations and continuity over traditional notions of distance and congruence. It pairs geometric reasoning with algebraic symbolism to fix ideas and verify results, while introducing the possibility of imagining higher dimensions and imaginary elements as essential tools.
This edition aims to be self-contained, gradually building a coherent view of abstract geometry and its real‑world implications. It foregrounds a synthetic path while acknowledging the role of symbolic methods, and it explains why some ideas may appear unfamiliar at first but become clear through careful reasoning.
- Replaces distance with a theory of related ranges and continuity, yet preserves rigorous proofs
- Integrates algebraic symbolism to support geometric thinking and verification
- Introduces the notion of imaginary elements as a legitimate part of the framework
- Emphasizes the study of higher dimensions and their impact on curves and surfaces
Ideal for readers of rigorous introductory geometry who want a logically complete, concept‑driven path that blends synthetic and symbolic approaches.
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Patricia A. Baker is Head of Classical and Archaeological Studies at the University of Kent. She was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2006. She is an active field archaeologist and has participated in excavations in the United States, United Kingdom, and Italy. She is currently working on a project in Monte San Martino ai Campo, Trentino, Italy, a multi-period site dating from the Iron Ages to the Middle Ages. She is author of Medical Care for the Roman Army on the Rhine, Danube and British Frontiers in the First, Second and Early Third Centuries AD and editor of Medicine and Space: Body, Buildings and Borders in the Classical and Medieval Traditions, Practitioners, Practices and Patients: New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology and TRAC 98: The Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference Proceedings 1998.
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