The Facts On File Geometry Handbook - Brossura

Gorini, Catherine A.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0816062307 ISBN 13: 9780816062300

Casa editrice: Checkmark Books, 2005

Riassunto

Praise for the hardcover edition:

"The definitions are clear and easy to understand...useful to teachers...Recommended for academic, public, and some high-school libraries."—Booklist

"...[an] excellent reference book...Highly recommended."—Choice

This volume is the ideal primer for middle and high school students on the subject of geometry. It explains the fundamental concepts, ideas, processes and procedures, and figures that make geometry highly applicable in the world outside the classroom.

Among the topics covered are:

• Analytic geometry
• Beltrami-Klein model
• Cantor set
• Ellipse
• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• Hyperbolic cosine
• Kepler-Poinsot solids
• Mystic hexagram theorem
• Obtuse angle
• Penrose tiling
• Quadratic surface.

Biographies include:

• Fillipo Brunelleschi
• Shiing-Shen Chern
• M. C. Escher
• Fibonacci
• Hippocrates of Chios
• Emmy Noether
• Blaise Pascal
• Marjorie Senechal
• Zu Chongzhi.

Tables, charts, and diagrams include:

• Antiprism
• Conic sections
• Curvalinear figures and solids
• Fano Configuration
• Golden spiral
• Greek alphabet
• Polygons
• Tangent
• Trigonometric functions
• Trigonometric tables.

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Book by Gorini Catherine A

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Checkmark Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0816062307
• ISBN 13: 9780816062300
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 280
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile