Geometry: Tools for a Changing World, Texas Edition
By Laurie E. Bass.
Description
From Wikipedia: Geometry (Ancient Greek: ?????????; geo- "earth", -metria "measurement") is a branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space. Geometry arose independently in a number of early cultures as a body of practical knowledge concerning lengths, areas, and volumes, with elements of a formal mathematical science emerging in the West as early as Thales (6th Century BC). By the 3rd century BC geometry was put into an axiomatic form by Euclid, whose treatment-Euclidean geometry-set a standard f...
ISBN(s)
0134333640, 9780134333649
