Revolutions of Geometry, Solutions Manual to Accompany Revolutions in Geometry - Michael L. O'Leary

Revolutions of Geometry, Solutions Manual to Accompany Revolutions in Geometry

Buch | Softcover
160 Seiten
2010
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-470-16756-4 (ISBN)
40,98 inkl. MwSt
Based on the premise that in order to write proofs, one needs to read finished proofs as well as study both their logic and grammar, Revolutions in Geometry depicts how to write basic proofs in various fields of geometry.
Based on the premise that in order to write proofs, one needs to read finished proofs as well as study both their logic and grammar, Revolutions in Geometry depicts how to write basic proofs in various fields of geometry. This accessible text for junior and senior undergraduates explains the general development of geometry throughout time, discusses the involvement of its major contributors, and places the proofs into the context of geometry's history to illustrate how crucial proof writing is to the job of a mathematician.

Michael L. O'Leary, PhD, is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the College of DuPage in Glenn Ellyn, Illinois.?He is a Member of the American Mathematical Society, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, and the Mathematical Society of America.?He received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of California, Irvine in 1994.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

PART I FOUNDATIONS.

1 The First Geometers.

2 Thales.

3 Plato and Aristotle.

PART II THE GOLDEN AGE.

4 Pythagoras.

5 Euclid.

6 Archimedes.

PART III ENLIGHTENMENT.

7 François Viète.

8 René Descartes.

9 Gérard Desargues.

PART IV A STRANGE NEW WORLD.

10 Giovanni Saccheri.

11 Johann Lambert.

12 Nicolai Lobachevski and János Bolyai.

PART V NEW DIRECTIONS.

13 Bernhard Riemann.

14 Jean-Victor Poncelet.

15 Felix Klein.

References.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.9.2010
Reihe/Serie Pure and Applied Mathematics: A Wiley Series of Texts, Monographs and Tracts
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 235 mm
Gewicht 281 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geometrie / Topologie
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-470-16756-4 / 0470167564
ISBN-13 978-0-470-16756-4 / 9780470167564
Zustand Neuware
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