An Unabridged Printing To Include All Exercises: Foundations - Elementary Theo...An Unabridged Printing To Include All Exercises: Foundations - Elementary Theorems On Order - The Affine Group In The Plane - Euclidean Plane Geometry - Ordinal And Metric Properties Of Conics - Inversion Geometry And Related Topics - Comprehensive...more
Here is the first of a two-volume work offering an introduction to algebraic g...Here is the first of a two-volume work offering an introduction to algebraic geometry. It makes the topic accessible to non-specialists and beginners and is suitable for undergraduates in mathematics as well as students of theoretical physics....more
Control theory represents an attempt to codify in mathematical terms the princ...Control theory represents an attempt to codify in mathematical terms the principles and techniques used in the analysis and design of control systems. Algebraic geometry may in an elementary way be viewed as the study of the structure and properties...more
David Gould s acclaimed first book Complete Maya Programming: An Extensive Gui...David Gould s acclaimed first book Complete Maya Programming: An Extensive Guide to MEL and the C++ API provides artists and programmers with a deep understanding of the way Maya works and how it can be enhanced and customized through programming....more
This introductory volume offers strong reinforcement for its teachings with de...This introductory volume offers strong reinforcement for its teachings with detailed examples and numerous theorems proofs and exercises plus complete answers to all odd-numbered end-of-chapter problems. 1970 edition.more
The second of four volumes concerning the author s ground-breaking insights on...The second of four volumes concerning the author s ground-breaking insights on Geometry Mind and Meaning complete with diagrams. This volume concerns different aspects of modern science that will bear on this geometry which will be presented in a...more
Shafarevich s Basic Algebraic Geometry has been a classic and universally used...Shafarevich s Basic Algebraic Geometry has been a classic and universally used introduction to the subject since its first appearance over 40 years ago. As the translator writes in a prefatory note ``For all [advanced undergraduate and beginning...more
Whicher explores the concepts of polarity and movement in modern projective ge...Whicher explores the concepts of polarity and movement in modern projective geometry as a discipline of thought that transcends the limited and rigid space and forms of Euclid and the corresponding material forces conceived in classical mechanics....more
First published in 1952 this book has been recommended to generations of stude...First published in 1952 this book has been recommended to generations of students. It provides a clear and systematic introduction to projective geometry building on concepts from linear algebra. [Topics are] presented with a simplicity and clarity...more
This lucid accessible text provides an introductory guide to projective geomet...This lucid accessible text provides an introductory guide to projective geometry an area of mathematics concerned with the properties and invariants of geometric figures under projection. Including numerous examples and exercises this text is ideal...more
First published in 1952 this book has proven a valuable introduction for gener...First published in 1952 this book has proven a valuable introduction for generations of students. It provides a clear and systematic development of projective geometry building on concepts from linear algebra.more
Lawrence Edwards classic work on the fascinating qualities of projective geome...Lawrence Edwards classic work on the fascinating qualities of projective geometry - illustrated with over 200 diagrams and exercises. The elements of geometry are points lines and planes together with Space and Nothing. In Euclidian geometry we...more
Robin Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architec...Robin Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture drawing on mathematics engineering art history and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form. Anyone reviewing the history...more
Whicher explores the concepts of polarity and movement in modern projective ge...Whicher explores the concepts of polarity and movement in modern projective geometry as a discipline of thought that transcends the limited and rigid space and forms of Euclid and the corresponding material forces conceived in classical mechanics....more
Lawrence Edwards researched and taught projectivegeometry for more than 40 ye...Lawrence Edwards researched and taught projective geometry for more than 40 years. Here he presents a clear and artistic understanding of the intriguing qualities of this geometry. Illustrated with over 200 instructive diagrams and exercises this...more