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Livre 8 sur 168: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics

Hartshorne, Robin

 
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Synopsis

Preliminary Booksellers Text: Do Not Use This book takes Euclid's "Elements" ad the starting point for a study of geometry from a modern mathematical perspective. To begin, the reader will become familiar with the content of Euclid's work, at least those parts which deal with geometry. At a second level, the book studies the logical structure of Euclid's presentation. Euclid's "Elements" has been regarded for more than two thousand years as the prime example of the axiomatic method. At the third level of reading, involving rather broader investigaions than the first two levels mentioned above, the author considers various mathematical questions and subsequent developments which arise naturally from Euclid's

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Biographie de l'auteur

Robin Hartshorne is a professor of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, and is the author of Foundations of Projective Geometry (Benjamin, 1967) and Algebraic Geometry (Springer, 1977).

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9781441931450: Geometry: Euclid and Beyond

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ISBN 10 :  1441931457 ISBN 13 :  9781441931450
Editeur : Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2010
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