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Geometry : our cultural heritage
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- Creator
- Audun Holme
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 378 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9783540419495, 3540419497, 9783662047200, 3642075460, 3662047209
- OCLC
- ocm47844737
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-364) and index.
- pt. 1. A cultural heritage -- 1. Early beginnings -- 2. The great river civilizations -- 3. Greek and Hellenic geometry -- 4. Geometry in the Hellenistic era -- 5. The geometry of yesterday and today -- 6. Geometry and the real world -- pt. 2. Introduction to geometry -- 7. Axiomatic geometry -- 8. Axiomatic projective geometry -- 9. Models for non-Euclidian geometry -- 10. Making things precise -- 11. Projective space -- 13. Geometry in the affine and the projective plane -- Algebraic curves of higher degrees in the affine plane -- 14. Higher geometry in the projective plane -- 15. Sharpening the sword of algebra -- 16. Constructions with straightedge and compass -- 17. Fractal geometry -- 18. Catastrophe theory