The Facts on File Geometry Handbook (Facts on File Science Library) - Softcover

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Praise for the hardcover edition:

"The definitions are clear and easy to understand...useful to teachers...Recommended for academic, public, and some high-school libraries."—Booklist

"...[an] excellent reference book...Highly recommended."—Choice

This volume is the ideal primer for middle and high school students on the subject of geometry. It explains the fundamental concepts, ideas, processes and procedures, and figures that make geometry highly applicable in the world outside the classroom.

Among the topics covered are:

• Analytic geometry
• Beltrami-Klein model
• Cantor set
• Ellipse
• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• Hyperbolic cosine
• Kepler-Poinsot solids
• Mystic hexagram theorem
• Obtuse angle
• Penrose tiling
• Quadratic surface.

• Fillipo Brunelleschi
• Shiing-Shen Chern
• M. C. Escher
• Fibonacci
• Hippocrates of Chios
• Emmy Noether
• Blaise Pascal
• Marjorie Senechal
• Zu Chongzhi.

• Antiprism
• Conic sections
• Curvalinear figures and solids
• Fano Configuration
• Golden spiral
• Greek alphabet
• Polygons
• Tangent
• Trigonometric functions
• Trigonometric tables.

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