Essentials of Geometry for College Students |  | Authors: Margaret L. Lial, Arnold R. Steffensen, L. Murphy Johnson
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 431
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Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 0673384195
Dewey Decimal Number: 516.2
EAN: 9780673384195
Publication Date: January 7, 1997
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Product Description
This applications-oriented text covers all the geometry needed by students planning to take courses in intermediate algebra, college algebra, trigonometry, or calculus. It presumes an understanding of beginning algebra. The presentation is concise and practical; some of the theorem and proof rigor of a traditional geometry course has been replaced by a more intuitive approach that emphasizes applications to future coursework and to everyday life. Essentials of Geometry for College Students features the accessible writing style and thorough pedagogy that have distinguished the many successful texts by the authors. Full-page chapter introductions, with striking photographs, preview applications that are solved later in the chapter. Throughout, detailed examples with step-by-step solutions and second-color annotations ensure comprehension. Definitions, postulates, theorems, and constructions are set off in colored boxes. Practice exercises parallel examples to help students assimilate concepts and techniques. An extensive exercise set follows each section, offering both routine drill problems and more challenging applications and extensions. Historical background, brainteasers, and illustrations to add interest.
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Not for serious geometry students June 4, 2006
Ken Burns (Claremont, CA USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I only own a copy of the first edition (1990), but unless adding a new author (Brown) or drastically changing the text has greatly improved anything, the book doesn't try for much more than its title indicates. Like many other college introductory geometry texts, this isn't much more than high-school-level geometry without all the colorful pictures and stories that are supposed to make the topic fun and show the application of geometry to our lives (making this book about a third the size of most high school texts).
This book is not bad, and is probably fine for the student who just needs a basic understanding of Euclidean plane geometry (with chapters on solid and analytical geometry, and trig). Many of the theorems are proved (two-column proofs). The exercises are more into reinforcing the chapter contents (solving numerical problems and showing concept understanding) than in exploring new material and applications.
For authors that introduce a more rigorous approach, and show how beautiful geometry can be; try Coxeter and Posamentier.
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