Bob Miller's Geometry for the Clueless - Bob Miller

Bob Miller's Geometry for the Clueless

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Buch | Softcover
264 Seiten
2005 | 2nd edition
McGraw-Hill Contemporary (Verlag)
978-0-07-145902-0 (ISBN)
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A guide that takes the fear out of geometry. It tackles a subject more than three million students face each year. It covers the high school curriculum as well as post secondary courses in geometry.
An easy-to-use guide that takes the fear out ofgeometry

Bob Miller’s Geometry for the Clueless tackles a subjectmore than three million students face every year.Miller acts as a private tutor, painstakingly coveringthe high school curriculum as well as post secondarycourses in geometry.

Bob Miller (East Brunswick, NJ) has been a lecturer in Mathematics at City College of New York, a branch of the City University of New York, for more than twenty-eight years.

What is Geometry? Why Should I Take It?CHAPTER 1
The Basics: Undefined Words, Defined Words, Axioms, and PostulatesCHAPTER 2
The Beginnings of ProofsCHAPTER 3
Improvement of Reasoning: Statement, Converse,Inverse, Contrapositive; Necessary and Sufficient Conditions; If and Only IfCHAPTER 4
Parallel Lines, Forever TogetherCHAPTER 5
Mostly TrianglesCHAPTER 7
Similar Figures and Pythagoras Lives!!!CHAPTER 8
Quadrilaterals Squarely DoneCHAPTER 9
Interior and Exterior AnglesCHAPTER 10
Areal Search & Securing the PerimeterCHAPTER 11
Volumes and Surface AreasCHAPTER 12
Circle ICHAPTER 13 Lines
(The Straight Kind) and Parabolas I (Not Straight)CHAPTER 14
Distance Formula, Midpoint Formula, Circle II,and Analytic Geometry ProofsCHAPTER 15 Functions, Translantions, Stretches, Contractions, and FlipsCHAPTER 16 CHAPTER 17
Right and Not So Right-Angle Trig, Law of Sines, and Law of CosinesCHAPTER 18
ConstructionsCHAPTER 19
Indirect Proofs; Disproving by Counterexample; and Too Much, Just Enough, or Not EnoughCHAPTER 20
Miscellaneous: Locus; Parallel Lines; and Larger and Smaller Sides and AnglesCHAPTER 21
Twenty-First-Century SAT Spin on GeometryCHAPTER 22
Always-Sometimes-Never QuestionsCHAPTER 23
Answers: You Should Always Draw the Picture If You Are Having ProblemsAppendix: A Radical ChapterIndexAcknowlegementAbout Bob Miller... In His Own Words

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.11.2005
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 185 x 236 mm
Gewicht 451 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geometrie / Topologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
Schlagworte Geometrie
ISBN-10 0-07-145902-2 / 0071459022
ISBN-13 978-0-07-145902-0 / 9780071459020
Zustand Neuware
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