Modern Geometry
by Robert Sharpley
Publisher: University of South Carolina 2008
Number of pages: 230
Description:
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, conics, transformation theory, affine geometry, Euclidean geometry, non-Euclidean geometries, and topology.
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