Introduction to Geometry

by H.S.M. Coxeter and Coxeter H S M

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471182834
• ISBN13: 9780471182832
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 469 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A beautiful work done

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.

Lots of illustrations and exercises-with answers at the back

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.

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.