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Geometry with Trigonometry Second Edition is a second course in
plane Euclidean geometry, second in the sense that many of its
basic concepts will have been dealt with at school, less precisely.
It gets underway with a large section of pure geometry in Chapters
2 to 5 inclusive, in which many familiar results are efficiently
proved, although the logical frame work is not traditional. In
Chapter 6 there is a convenient introduction of coordinate geometry
in which the only use of angles is to handle the perpendicularity
or parallelism of lines. Cartesian equations and parametric
equations of a line are developed and there are several
applications. In Chapter 7 basic properties of circles are
developed, the mid-line of an angle-support, and sensed distances.
In the short Chaper 8 there is a treatment of translations, axial
symmetries and more generally isometries. In Chapter 9 trigonometry
is dealt with in an original way which e.g. allows concepts such as
clockwise and anticlockwise to be handled in a way which is not
purely visual. By the stage of Chapter 9 we have a context in which
calculus can be developed. In Chapter 10 the use of complex numbers
as coordinates is introduced and the great conveniences this
notation allows are systematically exploited. Many and varied
topics are dealt with , including sensed angles, sensed area of a
triangle, angles between lines as opposed to angles between
co-initial half-lines (duo-angles). In Chapter 11 various
convenient methods of proving geometrical results are established,
position vectors, areal coordinates, an original concept mobile
coordinates. In Chapter 12 trigonometric functions in the context
of calculus are treated. New to this edition: The second edition
has been comprehensively revised over three years Errors have been
corrected and some proofs marginally improved The substantial
difference is that Chapter 11 has been significantly extended,
particularly the role of mobile coordinates, and a more thorough
account of the material is given
This book begins at the point where Professor Barry's text
'Geometry with Trigonometry' leaves off, and develops advanced
elements of plane geometry. It culminates in an account of the
geometry of conics in the complex projective plane. Along the way
it considers invariants of affine, projective, and complex-affine
plane geometry under the various appropriate group actions. The
ideas and progressive generalisations are introduced in a gradual
way, and thoroughly explored at each stage. Some of these ideas go
back to difficult and little-read works from the nineteenth
century, and are here rescued and made more accessible. Included
are many gems of plane geometry that originated with masters such
as Newton, Pascal, Carnot, Simson, and Desargues, and unexpected
variations on classical Greek results such as Pythagoras' Theorem.
The material is almost all accessible to anyone who understands
elementary plane geometry.
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