Vector Geometry - Paperback

by Gilbert De B. Robinson (Author)

This brief undergraduate-level text by a prominent Cambridge-educated mathematician explores the relationship between algebra and geometry. An elementary course in plane geometry is the sole requirement for Gilbert de B. Robinson's text, which is the result of several years of teaching and learning the most effective methods from discussions with students.
Topics include lines and planes, determinants and linear equations, matrices, groups and linear transformations, and vectors and vector spaces. Additional subjects range from conics and quadrics to homogeneous coordinates and projective geometry, geometry on the sphere, and reduction of real matrices to diagonal form. Exercises appear throughout the text, with complete answers at the end.

Author Biography

Gilbert de B. Robinson (1906-92) was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto for more than four decades. During WWII, he conducted top-secret government work on codes and cyphers, for which he received Britain's MBE award.