Geometry Revealed [recurso electrónico] : A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry / by Marcel Berger.

Por: Berger, Marcel [author.]Colaborador(es): SpringerLink (Online service)Tipo de material: TextoTextoEditor: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010Descripción: XII, 860p. 666 illus. online resourceTipo de contenido: text Tipo de medio: computer Tipo de portador: online resourceISBN: 9783540709978Tema(s): Mathematics | Differentiable dynamical systems | Combinatorics | Geometry | Discrete groups | Global differential geometry | Mathematics_ -- History | Mathematics | Geometry | History of Mathematics | Convex and Discrete Geometry | Differential Geometry | Combinatorics | Dynamical Systems and Ergodic TheoryFormatos físicos adicionales: Printed edition:: Sin títuloClasificación CDD: 516 Clasificación LoC:QA440-699Recursos en línea: Libro electrónicoTexto
Contenidos:
Points and lines in the plane -- Circles and spheres -- The sphere by itself: can we distribute points on it evenly? -- Conics and quadrics -- Plane curves -- Smooth surfaces -- Convexity and convex sets -- Polygons, polyhedra, polytopes -- Lattices, packings and tilings in the plane -- Lattices and packings in higher dimensions -- Geometry and dynamics I: billiards -- Geometry and dynamics II: geodesic flow on a surface.
En: Springer eBooksResumen: Both classical geometry and modern differential geometry have been active subjects of research throughout the 20th century and lie at the heart of many recent advances in mathematics and physics. The underlying motivating concept for the present book is that it offers readers the elements of a modern geometric culture by means of a whole series of visually appealing unsolved (or recently solved) problems that require the creation of concepts and tools of varying abstraction. Starting with such natural, classical objects as lines, planes, circles, spheres, polygons, polyhedra, curves, surfaces, convex sets, etc., crucial ideas and above all abstract concepts needed for attaining the results are elucidated. These are conceptual notions, each built "above" the preceding and permitting an increase in abstraction, represented metaphorically by Jacob's ladder with its rungs: the 'ladder' in the Old Testament, that angels ascended and descended... In all this, the aim of the book is to demonstrate to readers the unceasingly renewed spirit of geometry and that even so-called "elementary" geometry is very much alive and at the very heart of the work of numerous contemporary mathematicians. It is also shown that there are innumerable paths yet to be explored and concepts to be created. The book is visually rich and inviting, so that readers may open it at random places and find much pleasure throughout according their own intuitions and inclinations. Marcel Berger is the author of numerous successful books on geometry, this book once again is addressed to all students and teachers of mathematics with an affinity for geometry.
Star ratings
    Valoración media: 0.0 (0 votos)
Existencias
Tipo de ítem Biblioteca actual Colección Signatura Copia número Estado Fecha de vencimiento Código de barras
Libro Electrónico Biblioteca Electrónica
Colección de Libros Electrónicos QA440 -699 (Browse shelf(Abre debajo)) 1 No para préstamo 373190-2001

Points and lines in the plane -- Circles and spheres -- The sphere by itself: can we distribute points on it evenly? -- Conics and quadrics -- Plane curves -- Smooth surfaces -- Convexity and convex sets -- Polygons, polyhedra, polytopes -- Lattices, packings and tilings in the plane -- Lattices and packings in higher dimensions -- Geometry and dynamics I: billiards -- Geometry and dynamics II: geodesic flow on a surface.

Both classical geometry and modern differential geometry have been active subjects of research throughout the 20th century and lie at the heart of many recent advances in mathematics and physics. The underlying motivating concept for the present book is that it offers readers the elements of a modern geometric culture by means of a whole series of visually appealing unsolved (or recently solved) problems that require the creation of concepts and tools of varying abstraction. Starting with such natural, classical objects as lines, planes, circles, spheres, polygons, polyhedra, curves, surfaces, convex sets, etc., crucial ideas and above all abstract concepts needed for attaining the results are elucidated. These are conceptual notions, each built "above" the preceding and permitting an increase in abstraction, represented metaphorically by Jacob's ladder with its rungs: the 'ladder' in the Old Testament, that angels ascended and descended... In all this, the aim of the book is to demonstrate to readers the unceasingly renewed spirit of geometry and that even so-called "elementary" geometry is very much alive and at the very heart of the work of numerous contemporary mathematicians. It is also shown that there are innumerable paths yet to be explored and concepts to be created. The book is visually rich and inviting, so that readers may open it at random places and find much pleasure throughout according their own intuitions and inclinations. Marcel Berger is the author of numerous successful books on geometry, this book once again is addressed to all students and teachers of mathematics with an affinity for geometry.

19

Con tecnología Koha