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Taxicab Geometry
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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 t
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Technical specifications
Release date | January 01th 1987 |
Language | English |
Publisher | Dover Publications |
Collection | Dover Books on Mathematics |
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Accessibility | No information is available regarding the accessibility of the format Paper |