Textbooks for Math 444-487 Autumn 2002

These texts should be in the textbook section of the University Book Store (including the software, though the software may have been delayed)

Math 444 Texts

Math 487 Computer Lab Text

Optional Software

Geometer's Sketchpad 4 Software is available for use in the MSCC computer lab. However, you can purchase Geometer's Sketchpad 4 Student Edition in the University Bookstore if you wish to use the Sketchpad software at home.

How the Texts will be Used

The book Geometry by Berele-Goldman is a new book for 444 this year. The chapter in Berele-Goldman will provide the scaffolding organizing the week to week work of the course for most of the quarter. Chapters 1 through 11 or 12 will be covered in 444 and the remainder in 445.

The book Transformational Geometry by Brown will be used more and more during the course of 444 to explain the transformational approach to geometry. It will be introduced bit by bit in the first half of the course, with more emphasis on this book in the second half of 444.

The book Basic Geometry by Birkhoff and Beatley has been a central text in Math 444 in recent years, furnishing proofs, explanations, and problems. But the book will be supplanted to some extent this year by the Berele book. Thus this book should be treated as an optional or supplementary text.

Geometry through the Circle, by King, will be used as the textbook in the 487 labs.

These books are all on reserve in the Mathematics-Statistics Research Library in Padelford.