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Introduction to Geometry, 2nd Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: H. S. M. Coxeter
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
Buy New: $84.55
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 241501
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 496
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 0471504580
Dewey Decimal Number: 513
EAN: 9780471504580
Publication Date: February 23, 1989
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Product Description
This classic work is now available in an unabridged paperback edition. The Second Edition retains all the characterisitcs that made the first edition so popular: brilliant exposition, the flexibility permitted by relatively self-contained chapters, and broad coverage ranging from topics in the Euclidean plane, to affine geometry, projective geometry, differential geometry, and topology. The Second Edition incorporates improvements in the text and in some proofs, takes note of the solution of the 4-color map problem, and provides answers to most of the exercises.
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 Lots of illustrations and exercises-with answers at the back January 10, 2004
Craig Matteson (Ann Arbor, MI)
32 out of 32 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book. It isn't for mathematical beginners, but it isn't opaque either. It requires a student to think, experiment and to learn by puzzling things out in one's mind rather than simple memorization and regurgitation. Nor does it follow the all too common modern method of over simplifying things to allow people to pretend they have learned math while only dabbling in a few basic topics.This book is amply illustrated with many exercises (answers are provided at the back for all the exercises). The book also has some humor and wit with the quotes it distributes throughout the book to help liven things up. There is also a list of helpful references and an index. When reading the book, don't be afraid of going to a dictionary or the web or some other math books for clarification of some terms or more basic concepts. It is essential to have everything clear in your mind before moving on or you will stumble. As in all math, it is like a building with the next stage being built on the present one which is built on the previous one. You can't skip steps very successfully very often. This is a great volume to have in your library, but even better to work through.
Best survey of geometry. June 27, 2000
D. Briggs (outside of Boston)
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
This is Coxeter best book. Introduction to Geometry covers a wide range of topics and is the first book that I will look at for any geometry topic. It is now a little dated but only in the topics that it does not cover. Like all of Coxeter works each topic is clear and to the point. If you only buy one book on geometry this is it.
A beautiful work done May 30, 2008
Zipeng Wang (USA)
This is a book that can lead you into the beauty of geometry. Mathematics is not constructed with knowledges and techniques, but the wisdom and ideas. This book does reflect it.
 this is not an introduction July 22, 2000
Charles R. Williams (Akron, OH United States)
50 out of 56 found this review helpful
A better title for this book would be "Advanced Topics in Geometry". The chapters are pretty much self-contained.This book presumes a thorough, rigorous knowledge of high school geometry such as you might get in a college geometry course designed for future teachers along with considerable mathematical maturity.
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