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Foundations of Convex Geometry

By W. A. Coppel

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0521639700
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2413609 bytes)
Series
Australian MS Lecture Series 12
Pages
236\236
DPI
600
Time added
2015-06-24 19:29:13

Description

This book presents the foundations of Euclidean geometry from the point of view of mathematics, taking advantage of all the developments since the appearance of Hilbert's classic work. Here, real affine space is characterized by a small number of axioms involving points and line segments making the treatment self-contained and thorough. This treatment is accessible for final year undergraduates and graduate students, and can also serve as an introduction to other areas of mathematics such as matroids and antimatroids, combinatorial convexity, the theory of polytopes, projective geometry and functional analysis.

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