By Judith N. Cederberg

ISBN-10: 0387989722

ISBN-13: 9780387989723

ISBN-10: 1441931937

ISBN-13: 9781441931931

ISBN-10: 3540969225

ISBN-13: 9783540969228

Designed for a junior-senior point direction for arithmetic majors, together with those that plan to educate in secondary university. the 1st bankruptcy provides a number of finite geometries in an axiomatic framework, whereas bankruptcy 2 keeps the substitute method in introducing either Euclids and ideas of non-Euclidean geometry. There follows a brand new creation to symmetry and hands-on explorations of isometries that precedes an in depth analytic therapy of similarities and affinities. bankruptcy four provides airplane projective geometry either synthetically and analytically, and the hot bankruptcy five makes use of a descriptive and exploratory method of introduce chaos conception and fractal geometry, stressing the self-similarity of fractals and their iteration through ameliorations from bankruptcy three. all through, every one bankruptcy contains a record of instructed assets for functions or comparable themes in parts reminiscent of artwork and heritage, plus this moment variation issues to internet destinations of author-developed courses for dynamic software program explorations of the Poincaré version, isometries, projectivities, conics and fractals. Parallel models can be found for "Cabri Geometry" and "Geometers Sketchpad".

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