Description: Geometry from a Differentiable Viewpoint, Paperback by McCleary, John, ISBN 0521133114, ISBN-13 9780521133111, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "The development of geometry from Euclid to Euler to Lobachevsky, Bolyai, Gauss, and Riemann is a story that is often broken into parts - axiomatic geometry, non-Euclidean geometry, and differential geometry. This poses a problem for undergraduates: Which part is geometry? What is the big picture to which these parts belong? In this introduction to differential geometry, the parts are united with all of their interrelations, motivated by the history of the parallel postulate. Beginning with the ancient sources, the author first explores synthetic methods in Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry and then introduces differential geometry in its classical formulation, leading to the modern formulation on manifolds such as space-time. The presentation is enlivened by historical diversions such as Hugyens's clock and the mathematics of cartography. The intertwined approaches will help undergraduates understand the role of elementary ideas in the more general, differential setting. This thoroughly revised second edition includes numerous new exercises and a new solution key. New topics include Clairaut's relation for geodesics, Euclid's geometry of space, further properties of cycloids and map projections, and the use of transformations such as the reflections of the Beltrami disk"--
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Book Title: Geometry from a Differentiable Viewpoint
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Geometry from a Differentiable ViewPoint
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Geometry / Differential, Topology
Publication Year: 2012
Features: Revised
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.2 Oz
Item Length: 10 in
Subject Area: Mathematics
Author: John Mccleary
Item Width: 6.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
