Glimpses of Algebra and Geometry

Gabor Toth (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

450 Seiten

2011 | Second Edition 2002
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-2962-4 (ISBN)

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Previous edition sold 2000 copies in 3 years; Explores the subtle connections between Number Theory, Classical Geometry and Modern Algebra; Over 180 illustrations, as well as text and Maple files, are available via the web facilitate understanding: http://mathsgi01.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/wrap/gtoth/; Contains an insert with 4-color illustrations; Includes numerous examples and worked-out problems

“A Number Is a Multitude Composed of Units”—Euclid.- “... There Are No Irrational Numbers at All”—Kronecker.- Rationality, Elliptic Curves, and Fermat’s Last Theorem.- Algebraic or Transcendental?.- Complex Arithmetic.- Quadratic, Cubic, and Quartic Equations.- Stereographic Projection.- Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.- Symmetries of Regular Polygons.- Discrete Subgroups of Iso (R2).- Möbius Geometry.- Complex Linear Fractional Transformations.- “Out of Nothing I Have Created a New Universe”—Bolyai.- Fuchsian Groups.- Riemann Surfaces.- General Surfaces.- The Five Platonic Solids.- Finite Möbius Groups.- Detour in Topology: Euler-Poincaré Characteristic.- Detour in Graph Theory: Euler, Hamilton, and the Four Color Theorem.- Dimension Leap.- Quaternions.- Back to R3!.- Invariants.- The Icosahedron and the Unsolvable Quintic.- The Fourth Dimension.

Reihe/Serie	Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Zusatzinfo	10 Illustrations, color; 47 Illustrations, black and white; XXII, 450 p. 57 illus., 10 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Algebra
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Analysis
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Arithmetik / Zahlentheorie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geometrie / Topologie
ISBN-10	1-4419-2962-2 / 1441929622
ISBN-13	978-1-4419-2962-4 / 9781441929624
Zustand	Neuware