Linear geometry with computer graphics /
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| Author / Creator: | Loustau, John, 1943- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Marcel Dekker, 1993. |
| Description: | x, 440 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs and textbooks in pure and applied mathematics ; 170 Monographs and textbooks in pure and applied mathematics ; 170. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1440110 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Preliminaries: fields
- Vector spaces
- Linear transformations
- Cosets of a vector space
- Invariant subspaces
- Part 2. Symmetric bilinear forms: symmetric bilinear forms
- Congruence
- Orthogonal complements
- Orthogonal bases
- Witt's cancellation theorem
- Isotropic and anisotropic spaces
- Functions on inner product spaces
- Part 3. Plane geometries: the affine plane
- The affine group
- Postulates for the Euclidean plane
- Inner product planes
- Projective planes
- Conic sections
- Part 4.