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Author Ostermann, Alexander.

Title Geometry by its history / Alexander Ostermann, Gerhard Wanner.

Imprint Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, c2012.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  516.009 Os7g 2012    ---  Available
Description xii, 437 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Undergraduate texts in mathematics, Readings in mathematics, 0172-6056
Undergraduate texts in mathematics. Readings in mathematics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part 1. Classical geometry -- Thales and Pythagoras -- The elements of Euclid -- Conic Sections -- Further results in Euclidean geometry -- Trigonometry -- Part 2. Analytic geometry -- Descartes' geometry -- Cartesian Coordinates -- To be constructible, or not to be -- Spatial geometry and vector algebra -- Matrices and linear mappings -- Projective geometry -- Solutions to the exercises.
Subject Geometry -- History.
Added Author Wanner, Gerhard.
ISBN 9783642291623
3642291627

 
    
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