The Facts on File Geometry Handbook

(The Facts on File Science Handbooks)
Catherine A. Gorini

Facts on File | 2003 | 288 páginas | PDF

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Descrição: 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.

Tópicos inluídos:

• 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.

Biografias:

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