Geometry: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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Luc Montagnier, Nobel laureate From the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19. few days ago i read this wonderful poetry collection that plays with Fibonacci's sequence by Ingot Christensen. Those who are not ready to make the necessary conceptual leap when they meet some of these ideas will feel insecure about all the mathematics that builds on it. I would say that the best audience of the book is a beginning undergrad in a stem program, a motivated and mature high school students with a keen interest on maths or a layman with some maturity of mathematical concepts. Moreover, the text of this evolves from the simple Euclidean geometry, leading up to spherical geometry and then hyperbolic.The Chalke History Festival announces a new name, new look, and tons for history buffs to get their teeth into! all this being said, this book is great for someone who has had mathematics in high school and knows what's what. It is a lovely little book, to be recommended for sixth-formers or first year undergraduates: it will open their eyes to the amazing beauty and power of this ancient and modern subject. proof of the irrationality of φ, to ''visualizing'' objects in higher dimensions and being able to grasp some of their properties, to how the curvature of different geometries affects the shortest path.

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /bABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. Nothing new to people who knew anything about math, and not terribly interesting to people trying to learn something about math. The study of geometry is at least 2500 years old, and it is within this field that the concept of mathematical proof - deductive reasoning from a set of axioms - first arose.The study of geometry is at least 2500 years old, and it is within this field that the concept of mathematical proof-deductive reasoning from a set of axioms-first arose. This Very Short Introduction covers the areas of mathematics falling under geometry, starting with topics such as Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries, and ranging to curved spaces, projective geometry in Renaissance art, and geometry of space-time inside a black hole.

But for someone who is not very familiar with mathematics, it won't make any sense, for such a person this book can be hard, confusing and boring. especially in the 3rd part which is titled "Proofs", part 5 with dimensions and part 6 with Geometry.while reading the 6th part I remembered of the phrase that was engraved on the door of plato's academy which goes like this: "LET NO ONE IGNORANT OF GEOMETRY ENTER HERE", I wonder how many people were rejected.