This book presents the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry and the subsequent reformulation of the foundations of Euclidean geometry. The book provides a selection of topics suitable for the undergraduate student. A feature of this text is that some new results are developed in the exercises and then built upon in subsequent chapters. Many new exercises have been included in this edition. The book incorporates a discussion of the historical development of ideas, and the philisophical implications on the subject.
- ISBN10 0716724464
- ISBN13 9780716724469
- Publish Date 15 July 1993 (first published 1 January 1974)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 December 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
- Edition 3rd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 483
- Language English