Bob Miller's Geometry for the Clueless : : Geometry

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Call Number: 516 Mi
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Includes index.
The Basics: undefined words, some defined words, axioms, and postulates -- The Beginnings of proofs -- Improvement of reasoning: statement, converse, inverse, contrapositive; necessary and sufficient conditions; if and only if -- Parallel lines, forever together -- Mostly triangles -- Secrets of proving congruent triangles -- Similar figures and pythagoras lives! -- Quadrilaterals squarely done -- Interior and exterior angles -- Areal search and securing the perimeter -- Volumes and surface area -- Circle 1 -- Lines (the straight kind) and parabolas 1 (not straight) -- Distance formula, midpoint formula, Circle 2, and analytic geometry proofs -- Functions, translations, stretches, contractions, flips -- Parabolas 2, ellipses, hyperbolas -- Right and not so right-angle trig, law of sines, law of cosines -- Constructions -- Indirect proofs; disproving by counterexamples; too much, just enough or not enough -- Miscellaneous: locus, parallel lines, larger and smaller sides and angles -- Sets; geometry on the 2005 (beyond and a little before) SAT I -- Always-sometimes-never.

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Clueless submitted by Clown81 on August 26, 2022, 11:21pm I was still clueless about Geometry after reviewing this book.