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Plane geometry is woefully lacking in education nowadays. The situation is so sad that some of these questions are very similar to the geometry questions in th
by veyron 15y ago
Plane geometry is woefully lacking in education nowadays. The situation is so sad that some of these questions are very similar to the geometry questions in the USAMO/IMO
- derleth 15y agoPlane geometry was, at the time, perhaps the premier formal system to be studied as such; now, we get the same concepts across using calculus (which doesn't seem to be mentioned on the exam) and set theory (which would only really take shape in the 1870s). (The history of mathematics doesn't get so much as a mention, either, but I don't expect it to.)
- jules 15y agoThis is an interesting "book" that reduces geometry to automated symbol pushing. http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/GT.html http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/GT.html