Introductory Non-Euclidean Geometry

Introductory Non-Euclidean Geometry
Author: Henry Parker Manning
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2013-01-30
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486154645

This fine and versatile introduction begins with the theorems common to Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, and then it addresses the specific differences that constitute elliptic and hyperbolic geometry. 1901 edition.

Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries

Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries
Author: Marvin J. Greenberg
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1993-07-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780716724469

This classic text provides overview of both classic and hyperbolic geometries, placing the work of key mathematicians/ philosophers in historical context. Coverage includes geometric transformations, models of the hyperbolic planes, and pseudospheres.

Introduction to Non-Euclidean Geometry

Introduction to Non-Euclidean Geometry
Author: EISENREICH
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2014-06-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1483295311

An Introduction to Non-Euclidean Geometry covers some introductory topics related to non-Euclidian geometry, including hyperbolic and elliptic geometries. This book is organized into three parts encompassing eight chapters. The first part provides mathematical proofs of Euclid’s fifth postulate concerning the extent of a straight line and the theory of parallels. The second part describes some problems in hyperbolic geometry, such as cases of parallels with and without a common perpendicular. This part also deals with horocycles and triangle relations. The third part examines single and double elliptic geometries. This book will be of great value to mathematics, liberal arts, and philosophy major students.

Introduction to Non-Euclidean Geometry

Introduction to Non-Euclidean Geometry
Author: Harold E. Wolfe
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486320375

College-level text for elementary courses covers the fifth postulate, hyperbolic plane geometry and trigonometry, and elliptic plane geometry and trigonometry. Appendixes offer background on Euclidean geometry. Numerous exercises. 1945 edition.

Geometry of Surfaces

Geometry of Surfaces
Author: John Stillwell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461209293

The geometry of surfaces is an ideal starting point for learning geometry, for, among other reasons, the theory of surfaces of constant curvature has maximal connectivity with the rest of mathematics. This text provides the student with the knowledge of a geometry of greater scope than the classical geometry taught today, which is no longer an adequate basis for mathematics or physics, both of which are becoming increasingly geometric. It includes exercises and informal discussions.

The Four Pillars of Geometry

The Four Pillars of Geometry
Author: John Stillwell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2005-08-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387255303

This book is unique in that it looks at geometry from 4 different viewpoints - Euclid-style axioms, linear algebra, projective geometry, and groups and their invariants Approach makes the subject accessible to readers of all mathematical tastes, from the visual to the algebraic Abundantly supplemented with figures and exercises

Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry

Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry
Author: Arlan Ramsay
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1475755856

This book is an introduction to hyperbolic and differential geometry that provides material in the early chapters that can serve as a textbook for a standard upper division course on hyperbolic geometry. For that material, the students need to be familiar with calculus and linear algebra and willing to accept one advanced theorem from analysis without proof. The book goes well beyond the standard course in later chapters, and there is enough material for an honors course, or for supplementary reading. Indeed, parts of the book have been used for both kinds of courses. Even some of what is in the early chapters would surely not be nec essary for a standard course. For example, detailed proofs are given of the Jordan Curve Theorem for Polygons and of the decomposability of poly gons into triangles, These proofs are included for the sake of completeness, but the results themselves are so believable that most students should skip the proofs on a first reading. The axioms used are modern in character and more "user friendly" than the traditional ones. The familiar real number system is used as an in gredient rather than appearing as a result of the axioms. However, it should not be thought that the geometric treatment is in terms of models: this is an axiomatic approach that is just more convenient than the traditional ones.

A History of Non-Euclidean Geometry

A History of Non-Euclidean Geometry
Author: Boris A. Rosenfeld
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2012-09-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1441986804

The Russian edition of this book appeared in 1976 on the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the historic day of February 23, 1826, when LobaeevskiI delivered his famous lecture on his discovery of non-Euclidean geometry. The importance of the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry goes far beyond the limits of geometry itself. It is safe to say that it was a turning point in the history of all mathematics. The scientific revolution of the seventeenth century marked the transition from "mathematics of constant magnitudes" to "mathematics of variable magnitudes. " During the seventies of the last century there occurred another scientific revolution. By that time mathematicians had become familiar with the ideas of non-Euclidean geometry and the algebraic ideas of group and field (all of which appeared at about the same time), and the (later) ideas of set theory. This gave rise to many geometries in addition to the Euclidean geometry previously regarded as the only conceivable possibility, to the arithmetics and algebras of many groups and fields in addition to the arith metic and algebra of real and complex numbers, and, finally, to new mathe matical systems, i. e. , sets furnished with various structures having no classical analogues. Thus in the 1870's there began a new mathematical era usually called, until the middle of the twentieth century, the era of modern mathe matics.

A Simple Non-Euclidean Geometry and Its Physical Basis

A Simple Non-Euclidean Geometry and Its Physical Basis
Author: I.M. Yaglom
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 146126135X

There are many technical and popular accounts, both in Russian and in other languages, of the non-Euclidean geometry of Lobachevsky and Bolyai, a few of which are listed in the Bibliography. This geometry, also called hyperbolic geometry, is part of the required subject matter of many mathematics departments in universities and teachers' colleges-a reflec tion of the view that familiarity with the elements of hyperbolic geometry is a useful part of the background of future high school teachers. Much attention is paid to hyperbolic geometry by school mathematics clubs. Some mathematicians and educators concerned with reform of the high school curriculum believe that the required part of the curriculum should include elements of hyperbolic geometry, and that the optional part of the curriculum should include a topic related to hyperbolic geometry. I The broad interest in hyperbolic geometry is not surprising. This interest has little to do with mathematical and scientific applications of hyperbolic geometry, since the applications (for instance, in the theory of automorphic functions) are rather specialized, and are likely to be encountered by very few of the many students who conscientiously study (and then present to examiners) the definition of parallels in hyperbolic geometry and the special features of configurations of lines in the hyperbolic plane. The principal reason for the interest in hyperbolic geometry is the important fact of "non-uniqueness" of geometry; of the existence of many geometric systems.