Slavin / Crisonino Geometry

A Self-Teaching Guide
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-471-68019-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Self-Teaching Guides

Learn geometry at your own pace
What are congruent circles? How do you find the hypotenuse of atriangle? What is the sum of the angles in a decagon? How can youapply geometric equations to your daily life? With the unbeatablestudy companion Geometry: A Self-Teaching Guide, you'll discoverthe answers to these questions and many more.
This thorough primer presents an easy-to-follow, proven method forgrasping the key concepts of geometry. You'll progress step by stepthrough plane, solid, and analytic geometry and then move on togeometric applications for calculus. You'll build yourproblem-solving skills along the way through detailed examples,reviews, exercises, and answer explanations. The clearly structuredformat of Geometry makes it fully accessible, providing an easilyunderstood, comprehensive overview for everyone from high schoolstudents to adult learners to math mavens.
Like all Self-Teaching Guides, Geometry allows you to buildgradually on what you have learned-at your own pace. Questions andself-tests reinforce the information in each chapter and allow youto skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern. Packed withuseful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise volume is avaluable learning tool and reference source for anyone who wants toimprove his or her understanding of basic geometry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slavin, Steve

Crisonino, Ginny

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.
1. The Basics.
2. Triangles.
3. Circles.
4. Perimeter and Area of Two-dimensional Polygons.
5. Volume and Surface Area of Three-dimensional Polygons.
6. Conic Sections.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

STEVE SLAVIN, Ph.D., is the author of many Wiley self-teachingguides, including Precalculus: A Self-Teaching Guide, QuickBusiness Math: A Self-Teaching Guide and the recently revised Allthe Math You'll Ever Need: A Self-Teaching Guide.
GINNY CRISONINO has taught math at Union County College in NewJersey for sixteen years. She is the coauthor with Slavin onPrecalculus: A Self-Teaching Guide.