Elementary Euclidean Geometry Hardback: An Introduction - Hardcover

Gibson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521834481 ISBN 13: 9780521834483

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

This book, first published in 2004, is a genuine introduction to the geometry of lines and conics in the Euclidean plane. Example based and self contained, with numerous illustrations and several hundred worked examples and exercises. Ideal for undergraduate courses in mathematics, or for postgraduates in the engineering and physical sciences.

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Críticas

'This is a nice and self-contained introduction into the geometry of the lines and the conics in the Euclidean plane within an analytical context'. Zentralblatt MATH

Biografía del autor

Chris Gibson received an honours degree in Mathematics from St Andrews University in 1963, and later the degrees of Drs Math and Dr Math from the University of Amsterdam, returning to England in 1967 to begin his 35 year mathematics career at the University of Liverpool. His interests turned towards the geometric areas, and he was a founder member of the Liverpool Singularities Group until his retirement in 2002 as Reader in Pure Mathematics, with over 60 published papers in that area. In 1974 he co-authored the significant 'Topological Stability of Smooth Mappings' (published by Springer Verlag) presenting the first detailed proof of Thom's Topological Stability Theorem. In addition to purely theoretical work in singularity theory, he jointly applied singular methods to specific questions about caustics arising in the physical sciences. His later interests lay largely in the applications to theoretical kinematics, and to problems arising in theoretical robotics. This interest gave rise to a substantial collaboration with Professor K. H. Hunt in the Universities of Monash and Melbourne, and produced a formal classification of screw systems. At the teaching level his major contribution was to pioneer the re-introduction of undergraduate geometry teaching. The practical experience of many years of undergraduate teaching was distilled into three undergraduate texts published by Cambridge University Press, now widely adopted internationally for undergraduate (and graduate) teaching.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521834481
• ISBN 13: 9780521834483
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192