Geometric Constructions - Martin, George E.

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Résumé :
This is a text on geometric constructions--a popular area of mathematics since the time of Plato to the modern classroom. The author takes advantage of modern algebra and the resultant coordinate geometry to analyze and classify these problems. Various geometric construction tools are associated with various algebraic fields of numbers and elements of algebra are necessarily encountered while exploring the constructions....

Biographie:
parts of it could be the text for a high school combinatorics course. The author has made a successful effort to illuminate and teach the elementary parts of combinatorics. He uses examples and problems to teach...

Sommaire:
From the reviews: Much of Martin's charming and accessible text could be used with bright school students. ... The book is rounded off by a section called 'The back of the book' which includes solutions and discussion of many exercises. George E. Martin is a remarkable writer who brings combinatorics alive. He has written a splendid introduction that requires very few prerequisites, yet soon delivers the reader into some highly effective methods of counting. The book is highly recommended. (S. C. Russen, The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 88 (551), 2004) This truly is an undergraduate mathematics text...