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| 852.1 | | COOKIE::WAHL | Dave Wahl: Database Systems AD, CX01-2/N22 | Fri Apr 01 1988 13:59 | 6 |
| Depends on what you mean by "reference". There's a standard book of math
tables which everybody uses and probably nobody remembers the title of
which has trig tables and identities (among other stuff). On the other
hand, there are a couple of excellent texts on Euclidean and non-Euclidean
geometry which have a lot of "standard" theorems and their proofs. Which
do you want (or both?).
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| 852.2 | CRC? | CHOVAX::YOUNG | Dumb, Expensive, Dumb ... (Pick Two) | Sat Apr 02 1988 23:07 | 5 |
| Re .1:
Do you mean the "CRC Handbook of Mathematical Tables"?
Its about all that I have ever used.
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| 852.3 | A well known classic | CADM::ROTH | If you plant ice you'll harvest wind | Mon Apr 04 1988 17:41 | 5 |
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"Introduction to Geometry"
H. S. M. Coxeter
- Jim
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| 852.5 | who needs tables when you have calculators | GORP::MARCOTTE | George Marcotte SWS Santa Clara | Tue Apr 05 1988 11:23 | 12 |
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>On the other
>hand, there are a couple of excellent texts on Euclidean and non-Euclidean
>geometry which have a lot of "standard" theorems and their proofs. Which
>do you want (or both?).
Text on Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry.... I need to go back
and refresh my self on the subject. You forget the simplest stuff
when you don't use it.
George
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| 852.6 | | COOKIE::WAHL | Dave Wahl: Database Systems AD, CX01-2/N22 | Tue Apr 05 1988 23:51 | 13 |
| Coxeter (cited above) is superb. He has three books, if I remember
correctly - Intro_to_Geometry, Projective_Geometry, and
Non-Euclidean_Geometry. I used his Intro and Non_Euclidean books in
college and got a lot out of them.
There is a slimmer volume which leaves a lot of proofs to the reader,
but the classic theorems of Euclidean, elliptic, and hyperbolic
geometry are pretty much all there: Greenberg,
Euclidean_and_Non-Euclidean_Geometry.
re: .2 Yeah, CRC is the one. "Y'know, about this big, with kinda
big brownish red letters on the spine, always in the upper left of the
third shelf in the reference section of the library ..."
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