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Introduction to Geometry

H. S. M. Coxeter (Author)

9780471504580, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 5 April 1989

496 pages
23 x 14.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.656 kg

This classic work is now available in an unabridged paperback edition. The Second Edition retains all the characterisitcs that made the first edition so popular: brilliant exposition, the flexibility permitted by relatively self-contained chapters, and broad coverage ranging from topics in the Euclidean plane, to affine geometry, projective geometry, differential geometry, and topology. The Second Edition incorporates improvements in the text and in some proofs, takes note of the solution of the 4-color map problem, and provides answers to most of the exercises.

Part I

Triangles 3

Regular Polygons 26

Isometry in the Euclidean Plane 39

Two-Dimensional Crystallography 50

Similarity in the Euclidean Plane 67

Circles and Spheres 77

Isometry and Similarity in Euclidean Space   96

Part II

Coordinates 107

Complex Numbers 135

The Five Platonic Solids 148

The Golden Section and Phyllotaxis 160

Part III
Ordered Geometry 175

Affine Geometry 191

Projective Geometry 229

Absolute Geometry 263

Hyperbolic Geometry  287

Part IV

Differential Geometry of Curves  307

The Tensor Notation  328

Differential Geometry of Surfaces  342

Geodesics  366

Topology of Surfaces  379

Four-Dimensional Geometry  396

Tables  413

References  415

Answers to Exercises  419

Index 459 

Subject Areas: Mathematics [PB]

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