The Facts on File Geometry Handbook

Catherine A. Gorini - Collection Facts on File Science Library

280 pages, parution le 30/04/2005

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Résumé

This volume is the ideal primer for middle and high school students on the subject of geometry. It explains the fundamental concepts, ideas, processes and procedures, and figures that make geometry highly applicable in the world outside the classroom.

Topics covered include:

Analytic geometry
Beltrami-Klein model
Cantor set
Ellipse
Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Hyperbolic cosine
Kepler-Poinsot solids
Mystic hexagram theorem
Obtuse angle
Penrose tiling
Quadratic surface

Biographies include:

Fillipo Brunelleschi
Shiing-Shen Chern
René Descartes
M. C. Escher
Fibonacci
Hippocrates of Chios
Emmy Noether
Blaise Pascal
Marjorie Senechal
Zu Chongzhi

Tables, charts, and diagrams include:

Antiprism
Conic sections
Curvalinear figures and solids
Fano Configuration
Golden spiral
Greek alphabet
Polygons
Tangent
Trigonometric functions
Trigonometric tables

L'auteur - Catherine A. Gorini

Catherine A. Gorini, Ph.D., is a recognized expert in geometry and an award-winning teacher. She has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Virginia and more than 25 years of experience teaching mathematics. Gorini is currently professor of mathematics and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Maharishi University of Management.

Sommaire

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Glossary
Biographies
Chronology
Charts and Tables
Appendix: Recommended Reading
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Facts on File
Auteur(s)	Catherine A. Gorini
Collection	Facts on File Science Library
Parution	30/04/2005
Nb. de pages	280
Format	18,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	581g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780816062300
ISBN13	978-0-8160-6230-0