Description
Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to hyperbolic and differential geometry that provides material in the early chapters that can serve as a textbook for a standard upper division course on hyperbolic geometry. The book goes well beyond the standard course in later chapters, and there is enough material for an honors course, or for supplementary reading.
Trade Review"The book is well laid out with no shortage of diagrams and with each chapter prefaced with its own useful introduction...Also well written, it makes pleasurable reading." Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Axioms for Plane Geometry; 2. Some Neutral Theorems of Plane Geometry; 3. Qualitative Description of the Hyperbolic Plane; 4. H3 and Euclidean Approximations in H2; 5. Differential Geometry of Surface; 6. Quantitative Considerations; 7. Consistency and Categoricalness of the Hyperbolic Axioms- the Classical Models; 8. Matrix Representation of the Isometry Group; 9. Differential and Hyperbolic Geometry in More Dimensions; 10. Connections with the Lorentz Group of Special Relativity; 11. Constructions by Straightedge and Compass in the Hyperbolic Plane; Index
