TY - BOOK AU - Ostermann,Alexander AU - Wanner,Gerhard TI - Geometry by its history T2 - Undergraduate texts in mathematics, Readings in mathematics, SN - 9783642291623 (hb) AV - QA443.5 .O88 2012 U1 - 516.009 OST-WAN 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Heidelberg PB - Springer KW - Geometry KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1; Classical geometry --; Thales and Pythagoras --; The elements of Euclid --; Conic Sections --; Further results in Euclidean geometry --; Trigonometry --; Part 2; Analytic geometry --; Descartes' geometry --; Cartesian Coordinates --; To be constructible, or not to be --; Spatial geometry and vector algebra --; Matrices and linear mappings --; Projective geometry --; Solutions to the exercises ER -