| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Bob Miller's clueless series |
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Miller, Robert, 1943-
Clueless series.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The Basics: undefined words, some defined words, axioms, and postulates -- The Beginnings of proofs -- Improvement of reasoning: statement, converse, inverse, contrapositive; necessary and sufficient conditions; if and only if -- Parallel lines, forever together -- Mostly triangles -- Secrets of proving congruent triangles -- Similar figures and pythagoras lives! -- Quadrilaterals squarely done -- Interior and exterior angles -- Areal search and securing the perimeter -- Volumes and surface area -- Circle 1 -- Lines (the straight kind) and parabolas 1 (not straight) -- Distance formula, midpoint formula, Circle 2, and analytic geometry proofs -- Functions, translations, stretches, contractions, flips -- Parabolas 2, ellipses, hyperbolas -- Right and not so right-angle trig, law of sines, law of cosines -- Constructions -- Indirect proofs; disproving by counterexamples; too much, just enough or not enough -- Miscellaneous: locus, parallel lines, larger and smaller sides and angles -- Sets; geometry on the 2005 (beyond and a little before) SAT I -- Always-sometimes-never. |
| Subject |
Geometry.
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| Added Title |
Geometry for the clueless |
| ISBN |
0071459022 (alk. paper) |
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9780071459020 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780071459020 |
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QBX a 05015297 |
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NLGGC 277808243 |
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YDXCP 2219835 |
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