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Geometries on surfaces /
"The projective, Mobius, Laguerre, and Minkowski planes over the real numbers are just a few examples of a host of fundamental classical topological geometries on surfaces that satisfy an axiom of joining. This book summarises all known major results and open problems related to these classical...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ;
v. 84. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The projective, Mobius, Laguerre, and Minkowski planes over the real numbers are just a few examples of a host of fundamental classical topological geometries on surfaces that satisfy an axiom of joining. This book summarises all known major results and open problems related to these classical geometries and their close (non-classical) relatives." "Topics covered include: classical geometries; methods for constructing non-classical geometries; classifications and characterisations of geometries. This work is related to a host of other fields including interpolation theory, convexity, differential geometry, topology, the theory of Lie groups and many more. The authors detail these connections, some of which are well-known, but many much less so." "Acting both as a referee for experts and as an accessible introduction for beginners, this book will interest anyone wishing to know more about incidence geometries and the way they interact."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 490 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-482) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107089280 110708928X 0511549652 9780511549656 9781107095533 1107095530 |