Flavors of Geometry
by Silvio Levy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1997
ISBN/ASIN: 0521629624
ISBN-13: 9780521629621
Number of pages: 208
Description:
This book collects accessible lectures on four geometrically flavored fields of mathematics that have experienced great development in recent years: hyperbolic geometry, dynamics in several complex variables, convex geometry, and volume estimation. Each lecture course start with elementary concepts, proceeds through highlights of the field, and concludes with a taste of advanced material.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(multiple PDF,PS files)
Similar books
Projective Geometryby Nigel Hitchin
The techniques of projective geometry provide the technical underpinning for perspective drawing and in particular for the modern version of the Renaissance artist, who produces the computer graphics we see every day on the web.
(15792 views)
Euclidean Plane and Its Relativesby Anton Petrunin
This book is meant to be rigorous, elementary and minimalist. At the same time it includes about the maximum what students can absorb in one semester. It covers Euclidean geometry, Inversive geometry, Non-Euclidean geometry and Additional topics.
(4911 views)
An Introduction to Geometryby Wong Yan Loi - National University of Singapore
Contents: A Brief History of Greek Mathematics; Basic Results in Book I of the Elements; Triangles; Quadrilaterals; Concurrence; Collinearity; Circles; Using Coordinates; Inversive Geometry; Models and Basic Results of Hyperbolic Geometry.
(11738 views)
Modern Geometryby Robert Sharpley - University of South Carolina
This course is a study of modern geometry as a logical system based upon postulates and undefined terms. Projective geometry, theorems of Desargues and Pappus, transformation theory, affine geometry, Euclidean, non-Euclidean geometries, topology.
(11274 views)