Geometry with an Introduction to Cosmic Topology

• Autor principal: Hitchman, Michael P. (Autor)
• Formato: Electrónico eBook
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Department of Mathematics, McMinnville, Oregon Michael P. Hitchman 2020.
• Colección: Open textbook library.
• Materias: Applied mathematics > Textbooks; Geometry and Trigonometry > Textbooks
• Acceso en línea: Access online version

Motivated by questions in cosmology, the open-content text Geometry with an Introduction to Cosmic Topology uses Mobius transformations to develop hyperbolic, elliptic, and Euclidean geometry - three possibilities for the global geometry of the universe. The text, written for students who have taken...