Bob Miller's geometry for the clueless
Subtitle: geometry
By: Robert Miller.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Bob Miller's clueless series
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Geometry
Other titles: Geometry for the clueless
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The Basics: undefined words, some defined words, axioms, and postulates; title: The Beginnings of proofs; title: Improvement of reasoning: statement, converse, inverse, contrapositive; necessary and sufficient conditions; if and only if; title: Parallel lines, forever together; title: Mostly triangles; title: Secrets of proving congruent triangles; title: Similar figures and pythagoras lives!; title: Quadrilaterals squarely done; title: Interior and exterior angles; title: Areal search and securing the perimeter; title: Volumes and surface area; title: Circle 1; title: Lines (the straight kind) and parabolas 1 (not straight); title: Distance formula, midpoint formula, Circle 2, and analytic geometry proofs; title: Functions, translations, stretches, contractions, flips; title: Parabolas 2, ellipses, hyperbolas; title: Right and not so right-angle trig, law of sines, law of cosines; title: Constructions; title: Indirect proofs; disproving by counterexamples; too much, just enough or not enough; title: Miscellaneous: locus, parallel lines, larger and smaller sides and angles; title: Sets; geometry on the 2005 (beyond and a little before) SAT I; title: Always-sometimes-never.