Continuous Symmetry: From Euclid to Klein
- ISBN-10
- 0821872664
- ISBN-13
- 9780821872666
- Category
- Mathematics
- Pages
- 546
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- American Mathematical Soc.
- Authors
- William H. Barker, Roger Howe
Description
"This text is for a one-semester undergraduate course on geometry. It is richly illustrated and contains hundreds of exercises."--BOOK JACKET.
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