Geometry by its history
By: Alexander Ostermann, Gerhard Wanner
Contributors: Wanner, Gerhard
Series: Undergraduate texts in mathematics, Readings in mathematics; Undergraduate texts in mathematics
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Heidelberg; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9783642291623
Subjects: Geometry; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-417) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1.; title: Classical geometry --; title: Thales and Pythagoras --; title: The elements of Euclid --; title: Conic Sections --; title: Further results in Euclidean geometry --; title: Trigonometry -- -- Part 2.; title: Analytic geometry --; title: Descartes' geometry --; title: Cartesian Coordinates --; title: To be constructible, or not to be --; title: Spatial geometry and vector algebra --; title: Matrices and linear mappings --; title: Projective geometry --; title: Solutions to the exercises.