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Geometry Revealed: A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry

Geometry Revealed: A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry
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Title Geometry Revealed ([Ebook]) : A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry / by Marcel Berger.
Author Berger, Marcel. , 1927-
Other name(s) SpringerLink (Online service)
Publication Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer , 2010.
Physical Details XII, 860 pages, 666 illus. : online resource.
ISBN 9783540709978
Summary Note 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.:
Contents note Introduction -- 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 361 -- Convexity and Convex Sets -- Polygons, polyhedra, polytopes -- Lattices, packings and tilings in the plane 3 -- Lattices and packings in higher dimensions -- Geometry and Dynamics I: Billiards -- Geometry and dynamics II: geodesic flow on a surface -- Name Index -- Symbol Index.
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Internet Site http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70997-8
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