Geometry: A High School Course

ISBN-13: 9780387966540 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 394 str.

Serge Lang; Gene Murrow; Gene Murrow

Opis

This text presents geometry in an exemplary, accessible and attractive form. The book emphasizes both the intellectually stimulating parts of geometry and routine arguments or computations in concrete or classical cases, as well as practical and physical applications. The book also teaches the student fundamental concepts and the difference between important reults and minor technical routines. Altogether, the text presents a coherent high school curriculum for the geometry course. There are many examples and exercises.

Spis treści

Introduction. 1: Distance and Algebra. 2: Coordinates. 3: Area and the Pythagoras Theorem. 4: The Distance Formula. 5: Some Applications of Right Triangles. 6: Polygons. 7: Congruent Triangles. 8: Dilations and Similarities. 9: Volumes. 10: Vectors and Dot Product. 11: Transformations. 12: Isometries. Index.