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Spherical Geometry and Its Applications introduces spherical geometry and its practical applications in a mathematically rigorous form. The text can serve as a course in spherical geometry for mathematics majors. Readers from various academic backgrounds can comprehend various approaches to the subject.





The book introduces an axiomatic system for spherical geometry and uses it to prove the main theorems of the subject. It also provides an alternate approach using quaternions. The author illustrates how a traditional axiomatic system for plane geometry can be modified to produce a different geometric world but a geometric world that is no less real than the geometric world of the plane.





Features:







  • A well-rounded introduction to spherical geometry






  • Provides several proofs of some theorems to app

    Table of Contents

    Review of three-dimensional geometry

    Geometry in a plane

    Geometry in space

    Plane trigonometry

    Coordinates and vectors

    The sphere in space

    Great circles

    Distance and angles

    Area

    Spherical coordinates

    Axiomatic spherical geometry

    Basic axioms

    Angles

    Triangles

    Congruence

    Inequalities

    Area

    Trigonometry

    Spherical Pythagorean theorem and law of sines

    Spherical law of cosines and analogue formula

    Right triangles

    The four-parts and half angle formulas

    Dualization

    Solution of triangles

    Astronomy

    The celestial sphere

    Changing coordinates

    Rise and set of objects in the sky

    The measurement of time

    Rise and set times in standard time

    Polyhedra

    Regular solids

    Crystals

    Spherical mappings

    Rotations and reflections

    Spherical projections

    Quaternions

    Review of complex numbers

    Quaternions: Definitions and basic properties

    Application to the sphere

    Triangles

    Rotations and Reflections

    Selected solutions to exercises

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    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
    Publication Date: 1/21/2023 12:01:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9781032475370, 978-1032475370
    ISBN10: 1032475374

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Spherical Geometry and Its Applications introduces spherical geometry and its practical applications in a mathematically rigorous form. The text can serve as a course in spherical geometry for mathematics majors. Readers from various academic backgrounds can comprehend various approaches to the subject.





    The book introduces an axiomatic system for spherical geometry and uses it to prove the main theorems of the subject. It also provides an alternate approach using quaternions. The author illustrates how a traditional axiomatic system for plane geometry can be modified to produce a different geometric world but a geometric world that is no less real than the geometric world of the plane.





    Features:







    • A well-rounded introduction to spherical geometry






    • Provides several proofs of some theorems to app

      Table of Contents

      Review of three-dimensional geometry

      Geometry in a plane

      Geometry in space

      Plane trigonometry

      Coordinates and vectors

      The sphere in space

      Great circles

      Distance and angles

      Area

      Spherical coordinates

      Axiomatic spherical geometry

      Basic axioms

      Angles

      Triangles

      Congruence

      Inequalities

      Area

      Trigonometry

      Spherical Pythagorean theorem and law of sines

      Spherical law of cosines and analogue formula

      Right triangles

      The four-parts and half angle formulas

      Dualization

      Solution of triangles

      Astronomy

      The celestial sphere

      Changing coordinates

      Rise and set of objects in the sky

      The measurement of time

      Rise and set times in standard time

      Polyhedra

      Regular solids

      Crystals

      Spherical mappings

      Rotations and reflections

      Spherical projections

      Quaternions

      Review of complex numbers

      Quaternions: Definitions and basic properties

      Application to the sphere

      Triangles

      Rotations and Reflections

      Selected solutions to exercises

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