Timeline for Euclid with Birkhoff
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| Jul 6, 2010 at 13:12 | comment | added | Anton Petrunin | Thank you. I checked the book, it is written for school students, a lot of motivation, but it does not go far enough for me (even in Euclidean geometry). | |
| Jul 5, 2010 at 14:46 | history | edited | Andrey Rekalo | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 5, 2010 at 14:43 | comment | added | Andrey Rekalo | Joseph, I haven't read the book you recommend. I do not claim at all that it might be inferior in any sense to the book by Birkhoff and Beatley. | |
| Jul 5, 2010 at 14:37 | comment | added | Joseph Malkevitch | This book does not treat the hyperbolic plane. Another advantage of Millman and Parker, Geometry: A Metric Approach with Models is that it has a much more modern flavor treating things like the taxicab plane, the Moulton plane, etc. | |
| Jul 5, 2010 at 14:36 | history | edited | Andrey Rekalo | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 5, 2010 at 14:24 | history | answered | Andrey Rekalo | CC BY-SA 2.5 |