Geometry

This text provides an introduction to group theory with an emphasis on clear examples. The authors present groups as naturally occurring structures arising from symmetry in geometrical figures and other mathematical objects. Written in a 'user-friendly'...

* Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of detailed diagrams and technical illustrations exploring the evolution and importance of the starcut diagram * Shows how the starcut diagram underlies the shaman's dance in China, the Vedic Fire Altar in India,...

Using a host of hilarious characters, Kjartan Poskitt presents all the tricks, tips and shortcuts to shapes they don't teach at school. Readers will find out how to command respect throughout the entire Universe, learn why the US defence headquarters is...

Based on a graduate course at the Technische Universitat, Berlin, these lectures present a wealth of material on the modern theory of convex polytopes. The straightforward exposition features many illustrations, and complete proofs for most theorems...

What's so funny about a trapezoid? Plus, what is a trapezoid? Cartoonist Larry Gonick unlocks the formula to understanding geometry in the latest entry in his New York Times bestselling Cartoon Guide series.For years, Larry Gonick's Cartoon Guide series...

The classic Heath translation, in a completely new layout with plenty of space and generous margins. An affordable but sturdy student and teacher sewn softcover edition in one volume, with minimal notes and a new index/glossary.Book InformationISBN...

Classical Deformation Theory is used for determining the completions of local rings of an eventual moduli space. When a moduli variety exists, the main result explored in the book is that the local ring in a closed point can be explicitly computed as an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486469812Author Branko GrunbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

'An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time ... The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ' IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES ...

Taking a direct route, "Essential Topology" brings the most important aspects of modern topology within reach of a second-year undergraduate student. It begins with a discussion of continuity and, by way of many examples, leads to the celebrated "Hairy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423657613Author Kimberly Schlegel WhitmanFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc

A handy where-to-find-it pocket reference companion to Euclid's Elements. Provides all the propositions and diagrams without the detailed proofs. Readers can use it to see the scope and structure of Elements, identify exactly what Euclid covers and what...

Everyday activities such as sharing a meal, sorting socks, and getting ready for school can be part of learning math. In the MathStart series, everyday life is the basis for each entertaining story. Simple math concepts are embedded in each story so that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486834221Author Serge LangFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 405gDimensions(mm)...

This is the revised and expanded 1998 edition of a popular introduction to the design and implementation of geometry algorithms arising in areas such as computer graphics, robotics, and engineering design. The basic techniques used in computational...

This book provides advanced undergraduate physics and mathematics students with an accessible yet detailed understanding of the fundamentals of differential geometry and symmetries in classical physics. Readers, working through the book, will obtain a...

Geometry, of all the branches of mathematics, is the one that is most easily visualized by making something. However, it is all too easy to reduce it to reams of formulas to memorize and proofs to replicate. This book aims to take geometry back to its...

In a sense, trigonometry sits at the center of high school mathematics. It originates in the study of geometry when we investigate the ratios of sides in similar right triangles, or when we look at the relationship between a chord of a circle and its arc...

This volume aims to bridge between elementary textbooks on calculus and established books on advanced analysis. It provides elucidation of the reversible process of differentiation and integration through two featured principles: the chain rule and its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988749207Author Seth T. MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint Spirit Alchemy DesignPublisher Spirit Alchemy DesignWeight(grams) 477g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913565725Author Fergus CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Tarquin PublicationsPublisher Tarquin PublicationsDimensions(mm) 250mm * 170mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615992751Author Kenneth J M MacLeanFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Loving Healing PressPublisher Loving Healing PressWeight(grams)...

The theory of elliptic curves is distinguished by its long history and by the diversity of the methods that have been used in its study. This book treats the arithmetic approach in its modern formulation, through the use of basic algebraic number theory...

The surprising history behind a ubiquitous facet of the United States: the gridded landscape. Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486634159Author Bruce E. MeserveFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Master the geometry behind CAD, game engines, GIS, and more! Geometry for Programmers is a hands-on book teaching you the maths behind the tools and libraries to create simulations, 3D prints, and other models in the physical world. Ideal for developers...

Robin Hartshorne studied algebraic geometry with Oscar Zariski and David Mumford at Harvard, and with J.-P. Serre and A. Grothendieck in Paris. After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1963, Hartshorne became a Junior Fellow at Harvard, then taught...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486409214Author Wenniger WennigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the world's first textbook - shaped two thousand years of art,...

This book explains and helps readers to develop geometric intuition as it relates to differential forms. It includes over 250 figures to aid understanding and enable readers to visualize the concepts being discussed. The author gradually builds up to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912905584Author Katherine StansfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno Ltd

This book introduces the reader to modern algebraic geometry. It presents Grothendieck's technically demanding language of schemes that is the basis of the most important developments in the last fifty years within this area. A systematic treatment and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423654261Author Greg PaprockiPage Count 22Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc

This is a brief introduction to some geometrical topics including topological spaces, the metric tensor, Euclidean space, manifolds, tensors, r-forms, the orientation of a manifold and the Hodge star operator. It provides the reader who is approaching...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908489593Author Caz BuckinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 22Imprint Fine Feather Press LtdPublisher Fine Feather Press Ltd

Follow the red box by air, across the ocean, by land, through night and day on a journey through shapes. Just flip the transparent page to reveal them! Ideal for early learning, interactive, quirky and fun! This book is part of the acetate series by...

An inviting, intuitive, and visual exploration of differential geometry and formsVisual Differential Geometry and Forms fulfills two principal goals. In the first four acts, Tristan Needham puts the geometry back into differential geometry. Using 235...

The principle aim of this unique text is to illuminate the beauty of the subject both with abstractions like proofs and mathematical text, and with visuals, such as abundant illustrations and diagrams. With few mathematical prerequisites, geometry is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817638405Author Ethan D. BlochFormat HardbackPage Count 421Imprint Birkhauser Boston IncPublisher Birkhauser Boston IncWeight(grams) 1750g

Olive Whicher's groundbreaking book presents an accessible - non-mathematician's - approach to projective geometry. Profusely illustrated, and written with fire and intuitive genius, this work will be of interest to anyone wishing to cultivate the power...