A Course in Modern Geometries (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

By Judith N. Cederberg

Book Overview

A Course in Modern Geometries is designed for a junior-senior level course for mathematics majors, including those who plan to teach in secondary school. Chapter 1 presents several finite geometries... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387969225
• ISBN13: 9780387969220
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Very readable and well written!

I studied Dr. Cederberg's text a while ago while I was at St. Olaf College. Being an ambitious youth, I was always trying to seek out the "best" book in a field to study. However, it's certainly difficult to learn from the masters if one doesn't have a solid background in the basic materials. I learned Calculus from G. Hardy's "Pure Math" but found it extremely difficult to comprehend (though it was a rewarding try). Then I turned to Spivak for a more modern treatment. In geometry, I went the opposite way: studying Cederberg's book first before moving to the more advanced one. I like her clear presentation and especially the part on matrix representations of groups of transformations. This book would be a valuable source for teachers of geometry.