An Algebraic Approach to Geometry (Record no. 92725)

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International Standard Book Number 9783319017334
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-3-319-01733-4
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Subject category code MAT012000
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Classification number 516
Edition number 23
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Personal name Borceux, Francis.
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Title An Algebraic Approach to Geometry
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Remainder of title Geometric Trilogy II /
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Extent XVII, 430 p. 117 illus.
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Formatted contents note Introduction -- Preface -- 1.The Birth of Analytic Geometry -- 2.Affine Geometry -- 3.More on Real Affine Spaces -- 4.Euclidean Geometry -- 5.Hermitian Spaces -- 6.Projective Geometry -- 7.Algebraic Curves -- Appendices: A. Polynomials Over a Field -- B. Polynomials in Several Variables -- C. Homogeneous Polynomials -- D. Resultants -- E. Symmetric Polynomials -- F. Complex Numbers -- G. Quadratic Forms -- H. Dual Spaces -- Index -- Bibliography.
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Summary, etc This is a unified treatment of the various algebraic approaches to geometric spaces. The study of algebraic curves in the complex projective plane is the natural link between linear geometry at an undergraduate level and algebraic geometry at a graduate level, and it is also an important topic in geometric applications, such as cryptography.    380 years ago, the work of Fermat and Descartes led us to study geometric problems using coordinates and equations. Today, this is the most popular way of handling geometrical problems. Linear algebra provides an efficient tool for studying all the first degree (lines, planes, …) and second degree (ellipses, hyperboloids, …) geometric figures, in the affine, the Euclidean, the Hermitian and the projective contexts. But recent applications of mathematics, like cryptography, need these notions not only in real or complex cases, but also in more general settings, like in spaces constructed on finite fields. And of course, why not also turn our attention to geometric figures of higher degrees? Besides all the linear aspects of geometry in their most general setting, this book also describes useful algebraic tools for studying curves of arbitrary degree and investigates results as advanced as the Bezout theorem, the Cramer paradox, topological group of a cubic, rational curves etc.    Hence the book is of interest for all those who have to teach or study linear geometry: affine, Euclidean, Hermitian, projective; it is also of great interest to those who do not want to restrict themselves to the undergraduate level of geometric figures of degree one or two.
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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 Mathematics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Geometry.
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Title Springer eBooks
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International Standard Book Number 9783319017327
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01733-4
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