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Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry Arlan Ramsay

Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry By Arlan Ramsay

Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry by Arlan Ramsay


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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. The book goes well beyond the standard course in later chapters, and there is enough material for an honors course, or for supplementary reading.

Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry Summary

Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry by Arlan Ramsay

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.

Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry Reviews

The book is well laid out with no shortage of diagrams and with each chapter prefaced with its own useful introduction...Also well written, it makes pleasurable reading. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. Axioms for Plane Geometry; 2. Some Neutral Theorems of Plane Geometry; 3. Qualitative Description of the Hyperbolic Plane; 4. H3 and Euclidean Approximations in H2; 5. Differential Geometry of Surface; 6. Quantitative Considerations; 7. Consistency and Categoricalness of the Hyperbolic Axioms- the Classical Models; 8. Matrix Representation of the Isometry Group; 9. Differential and Hyperbolic Geometry in More Dimensions; 10. Connections with the Lorentz Group of Special Relativity; 11. Constructions by Straightedge and Compass in the Hyperbolic Plane; Index

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NLS9780387943398
9780387943398
0387943390
Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry by Arlan Ramsay
New
Paperback
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
1995-12-16
289
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