My recommendations from the earlier thread : Book recommendation on plane Euclidean geometry - are still to me as good a set of recommendations as there are. Help my children in a few years when they take geometry.īooks I could get for the iPad/Kindle or free books (Google?) would be most appreciatied, but I'm not opposed to killing a tree either :) Review the material myself in preparation for my advanced texts.Ģ. I do recall it had all the postulates and most major thereoms listed at the end of the book.ġ. I suspect the book was used nationally though and for quite a number of years, so perhaps someone with a better memory than me can provide a title/author. Unfortunately, I don't recall the title or author. And it certainly didn't attempt to address Hilbert's contributions to geometry or explain non-Euclidean geometry. When I was in 9th grade Honors Geometry way back in 1981/82 we had a textbook that, as I recall through my foggy memory, was very good and did systematically build up geometry from the propositions (5 of them?). These are probably too advanced for me.Ģ) Let us skip all that complicated postulates/proofs and make geometry fun. Let us assume you already know Eucliean geometry and move on to more interesting stuff. All the books I've seen seem to be of two typesġ) Let us use linear algebra and other techniques to put geometry on a firm footing.

I'm not interested (at this time) in a book that ties geometry in with linear algebra or explains non-euclidean geometry. I'd like a book that starts with Euclid's definitions and postulates and goes on from there to prove thereoms about triangles, circles and other plane shapes. Can someone recommend a good basic book on Geometry? Let me be more specific on what I am looking for.

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