Lines and Curves

Lines and Curves
Author: Victor Gutenmacher
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1475738099

Broad appeal to undergraduate teachers, students, and engineers; Concise descriptions of properties of basic planar curves from different perspectives; useful handbook for software engineers; A special chapter---"Geometry on the Web"---will further enhance the usefulness of this book as an informal tutorial resource.; Good mathematical notation, descriptions of properties of lines and curves, and the illustration of geometric concepts facilitate the design of computer graphics tools and computer animation.; Video game designers, for example, will find a clear discussion and illustration of hard-to-understand trajectory design concepts.; Good supplementary text for geometry courses at the undergraduate and advanced high school levels

Plane and Solid Geometry

Plane and Solid Geometry
Author: J.M. Aarts
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2009-04-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387782419

This is a book on Euclidean geometry that covers the standard material in a completely new way, while also introducing a number of new topics that would be suitable as a junior-senior level undergraduate textbook. The author does not begin in the traditional manner with abstract geometric axioms. Instead, he assumes the real numbers, and begins his treatment by introducing such modern concepts as a metric space, vector space notation, and groups, and thus lays a rigorous basis for geometry while at the same time giving the student tools that will be useful in other courses.

Ruler and Compass

Ruler and Compass
Author: Andrew Sutton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2009-11-03
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0802717764

Presents an introduction to the origins and principles of geometry, describing geometric constructions that can be achieved through the use of rulers and compasses.