Timeline for Textbook for undergraduate course in geometry
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| Jul 25, 2016 at 22:11 | answer | added | Mihail Denisov | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Dec 7, 2013 at 21:48 | comment | added | Anton Petrunin | "I find axiomatic treatments of geometry boring". First it is not boring if it done right. Second axiomatic approach to geometry is the best way to learn proofs (there is nothing on the second and third place and then you can think about elementary number theory). | |
| Feb 26, 2013 at 16:19 | answer | added | Bananeen | timeline score: 11 | |
| Nov 16, 2012 at 19:22 | vote | accept | Andy Putman | ||
| Nov 1, 2012 at 20:14 | answer | added | kjetil b halvorsen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 16:18 | answer | added | Rafe Mazzeo | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 15:08 | answer | added | Scott Taylor | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 14:57 | answer | added | Allen Hatcher | timeline score: 13 | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 12:27 | answer | added | lhf | timeline score: 9 | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 12:23 | answer | added | Micah Miller | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 12:19 | comment | added | Gregor Samsa | @Andy Putman: A decent undergraduate text on polytopes (and a little bit related stuff) is R. Thomas: Lectures in Geometric Combinatorics, AMS 2006. Another good undergraduate book that puts polytopes in the broader context of convex geometry is R.J. Webster: Convexity, Oxford 1994. This book is ridiculously expensive though. | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 6:13 | answer | added | pi2000 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 4:39 | answer | added | Clinton Curry | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 4:19 | answer | added | David Feldman | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 3:54 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | I graded Peter Shalen's such course at one time. I think they used Artin's Geometric Algebra. You might find an axiomatic treatment boring, but Shalen had a number of applications, one being digging a railroad tunnel, that fostered part of my desire to attend the course rather than grade it. If you can, you might email him for suggestions. Gerhard "Still Went The Algebraic Route" Paseman, 2012.10.31 | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 3:51 | answer | added | Taladris | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 3:42 | comment | added | Andy Putman | Differential Geometry is a good idea, but we already have an undergraduate course in differential geometry, so I probably should do something else. Is there a good undergraduate level book on polytopes? That could be a lot of fun (and I might learn something too). | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 3:41 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | I had a course much like what you describe, Andy, but at U.Vic I had a more diverse array of backgrounds than you'd (likely) encounter at Rice. Baby DG went over fine. I used Millman and Parker as my text. | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 3:30 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | A polytopes course could also satisfy 1-6 handily, but there are fewer books for this than for differential geometry. | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 3:12 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | It sounds like your students are ideal for a baby differential geometry course. As a perk, you could develop from DG the spherical and hyperbolic geometry models. This can satisfy 1-6 handily. | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 3:07 | history | asked | Andy Putman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |