Geometry and Billiards (Student Mathematical Library, 30, Band 30) - Softcover

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This book is devoted to billiards in their relation with differential geometry, classical mechanics, and geometrical optics.
The book is based on an advanced undergraduate topics course (but contains more material than can be realistically taught in one semester). Although the minimum prerequisites include only the standard material usually covered in the first two years of college (the entire calculus sequence, linear algebra), readers should show some mathematical maturity and strongly rely on their mathematical common sense. As a reward, they will be taken to the forefront of current research.

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