Taxicab Geometry: An Adventure in Non-Euclidean Geometry (Dover Books on Mathematics)
By Eugene F. Krause.
Description
This entertaining, stimulating textbook offers anyone familiar with Euclidean geometry — undergraduate math students, advanced high school students, and puzzle fans of any age — an opportunity to explore taxicab geometry, a simple, non-Euclidean system that helps put Euclidean geometry in sharper perspective.In taxicab geometry, the shortest distance between two points is not a straight line. Distance is not measured as the crow flies, but as a taxicab travels the "grid" of the city street, from block to block, vertically and horizontally, until the destination is reac...
ISBN(s)
0486252027, 9780486252025
