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Whittlesey, Marshall

 
9780367196905: Spherical Geometry and Its Applications
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ISBN 10: 0367196905 ISBN 13: 9780367196905
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2019

Sinossi

Spherical Geometry and Its Applications introduces spherical geometry and its practical applications in a mathematically rigorous form. The text can serve as a course in spherical geometry for mathematics majors. Readers from various academic backgrounds can comprehend various approaches to the subject.

The book introduces an axiomatic system for spherical geometry and uses it to prove the main theorems of the subject. It also provides an alternate approach using quaternions. The author illustrates how a traditional axiomatic system for plane geometry can be modified to produce a different geometric world – but a geometric world that is no less real than the geometric world of the plane.

Features:

  • A well-rounded introduction to spherical geometry

  • Provides several proofs of some theorems to appeal to larger audiences

  • Presents principal applications: the study of the surface of the earth, the study of stars and planets in the sky, the study of three- and four-dimensional polyhedra, mappings of the sphere, and crystallography

  • Many problems are based on propositions from the ancient text Sphaerica of Menelaus

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Informazioni sull'autore

Marshall A. Whittlesey is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at California State University San Marcos. He received a BS (1992) from Trinity College in Connecticut, and a PhD from Brown University (1997) under the direction of John Wermer. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University was SE Warchawski Assistant Professor at University of California San Diego (1999-2001). He has a series of research publications in functions of several complex variables.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2019
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0367196905
ISBN 13 
9780367196905
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
335
Contatto del produttore
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com

Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24
München
80331
Germania

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9781032475370: Spherical Geometry and Its Applications

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  1032475374 ISBN 13:  9781032475370
Casa editrice: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2023
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