Review: A Decent Free Geometry Textbook
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 9, 2010
This is a very approachable and well presented introductory text on Geometry. It is written at a very elementary level, but it can be used by anyone who is unfamiliar with this subject. The book is filled with multiple illustrations and images, which makes it a very It covers all the traditional topics in a Geometry course - points, lines, planes, plane figures, angles, etc. The material is presented in a very straightforward manner and it is very easy to follow. The book places special attention to reasoning and proofs, which are invaluable skills to have for any branch of mathematics. There are multiple worked-out examples throughout the text, and each section ends with a several problems and their solutions. The problems vary in difficulty, and many are designed with practical applications in mind. This book is available under the Creative Commons License through the CK-12 foundation, which means it can be reprinted, modified and resold if necessary.The Kindle formatting of this textbook leaves something to be desired. The book was originally typeset in LaTeX, and this did not translate all that smoothly into the Kindle format. I've found that getting this textbook on other e-readers or computers in the epub format rendered it much more satisfactorily.This is not the flashiest textbook that you will come across, but in my opinion it gets the job done.