By David A. Singer

ISBN-10: 0387983066

ISBN-13: 9780387983066

ISBN-10: 1461268370

ISBN-13: 9781461268376

a desirable journey via components of geometry scholars are not likely to work out within the remainder of their stories whereas, while, anchoring their tours to the well-known parallel postulate of Euclid. the writer exhibits how choices to Euclids 5th postulate result in fascinating and various styles and symmetries, and, within the technique of studying geometric items, the writer comprises the algebra of advanced and hypercomplex numbers, a few graph thought, and a few topology. fascinating difficulties are scattered in the course of the textual content. however, the booklet simply assumes a path in Euclidean geometry at highschool point. whereas many thoughts brought are complicated, the mathematical recommendations aren't. Singers full of life exposition and off-beat procedure will significantly charm either to scholars and mathematicians, and the contents of the e-book could be lined in a one-semester direction, might be as a sequel to a Euclidean geometry course.

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