These texts should be in the textbook section of the University Book Store. NOTE: The book by Brown seems to be in short supply. There may be copies at the Math n Stuff store on Roosevelt, or of course online.
This book is no longer in print. We will make do with notes and extracts.
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.
The texts will be supplemented by notes and additional references provided during the course.
The book Basic Geometry by Birkhoff and Beatley will be the textbook serving as a reference for the main theorems of Euclidean geometry, construction methods and problems. The book has the virtue of being succinct and inexpensive (by today's textbook standards).
However, it does have some drawbacks. It is a eighty-year old high school text written by one of the leading American mathematicians (Birkhoff) and a high school teacher (Beatley). As a high school text, it does not go as deeply into the mathematics as would be expected in a college text. As a "classic", it is missing some modern ideas: for example, it has very little about transformations.
Therefore, the book will be supplemented by in-class investigations and also by readings that give more examples of proofs, deeper and more general versions of the mathematics, and additional topics.
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.
Geometry through the Circle, by King, will be used as the textbook in the 487 labs. You should bring the book to lab as a rule, since the labs will usually refer to the book. The labs will be based on individual lab sheets that will be made available online or at a copy center.
These books are all on reserve in the Mathematics-Statistics Research Library in Padelford.