A Modern View of Geometry
by Blumenthal, Leonard M.Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2017-04-19
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary
Elegant exposition of the postulation geometry of planes, including coordination of affine and projective planes. Historical background, set theory, prop- ositional calculus, affine planes with Desargues and Pappus properties, construction of metrical planes, much more. Rigorous, lucid treatment of important area in modern mathematics. Unabridged, corrected republication of the third (1961) edition. 56 figures.
Author Biography
Leonard M. Blumenthal (1912–84) was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri. In addition to this volume, he wrote Theory and Applications of Distance Geometry.
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