The Poincaré Half-plane: A Gateway to Modern GeometryThe Poincare Half-Planeprovides an elementary and constructive development of this geometry that brings the undergraduate major closer to current geometric research. At the same time, repeated use is made of high school geometry, algebra, trigonometry, and calculus, thus reinforcing the students' understanding of these disciplines as well as enhancing their perception of mathematics as a unified endeavor. |
Contents
EUCLIDEAN RIGID MOTIONS | 35 |
INVERSIONS | 51 |
THE HYPERBOLIC PLANE | 63 |
EUCLIDEAN VERSUS HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY | 79 |
THE ANGLES OF THE HYPERBOLIC TRIANGLE | 93 |
HYPERBOLIC AREA | 109 |
THE TRIGONOMETRY OF THE HYPERBOLIC | 119 |
The general hyperbolic triangle | 125 |
A review of lengths and areas on surfaces | 190 |
Riemannian geometry revisited | 198 |
Exercises | 205 |
4 | 211 |
Explicit rigid motions of the unit disk model | 221 |
Regular tesselations of the unit disk model | 228 |
A BRIEF HISTORY OF NONEUCLIDEAN | 247 |
Exercises | 254 |
COMPLEX NUMBERS AND RIGID MOTIONS | 131 |
Exercises | 166 |
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND GAUSSIAN | 183 |
APPPENDIX | 277 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 293 |
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References to this book
Mathematical Expeditions: Chronicles by the Explorers Reinhard Laubenbacher,David Pengelley Limited preview - 2000 |