N-gons /
This book, a translation of the German volume n-Ecke, presents an elegant geometric theory which, starting from quite elementary geometrical observations, exhibits an interesting connection between geometry and fundamental ideas of modern algebra in a form that is easily accessible to the student wh...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
Publicado: |
Toronto [Ontario] :
University of Toronto Press,
[1975]
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Colección: | Mathematical expositions ;
no. 18. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This book, a translation of the German volume n-Ecke, presents an elegant geometric theory which, starting from quite elementary geometrical observations, exhibits an interesting connection between geometry and fundamental ideas of modern algebra in a form that is easily accessible to the student who lacks a sophisticated background in mathematics. It stimulates geometrical thought by applying the tools of linear algebra and the algebra of polynomials to a concrete geometrical situation to reveal some rather surprising insights into the geometry of n-gons. The twelve chapters treat n-gons, classes of n-gons, and mapping of the set of n-gons into itself. Exercises are included throughout, and two appendixes, by Henner Kinder and Eckart Schmidt, provide background material on lattices and cyclotomic polynomials.(Mathematical Expositions No. 18). |
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Notas: | Translation of: N-Ecke. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 191 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781442656444 1442656441 |
ISSN: | 0076-5333 ; |