Geometry Revealed (Record no. 111207)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783540709978
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-3-540-70997-8
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Classification number QA440-699
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Subject category code PBM
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Subject category code MAT012000
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 516
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Berger, Marcel.
Relator term author.
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Title Geometry Revealed
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Marcel Berger.
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-- Berlin, Heidelberg :
-- Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
-- 2010.
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Extent XII, 860p. 666 illus.
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Formatted contents note 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.
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Summary, etc 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.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mathematics.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Differentiable dynamical systems.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Combinatorics.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Geometry.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Discrete groups.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Global differential geometry.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mathematics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Geometry.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History of Mathematics.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Convex and Discrete Geometry.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Differential Geometry.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Combinatorics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.
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Title Springer eBooks
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International Standard Book Number 9783540709961
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70997-8
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