Bøger af Kristopher Tapp

Students from all majors will enjoy the many beautiful topics herein, and will come to better appreciate the powerful cumulative nature of mathematics as these topics are woven together into a single fascinating story about the ways in which objects can be symmetric.

Symmetry is an ideal topic for a one-semester math course for non-math majors, particularly in the humanities. This text encourages effective analytical thinking and exposes students to elegant mathematical ideas, with a number of visually expressed examples.

Even better, a south-pointing chariot helps one visualize a parallel vector field along any curve in any surface. In truth, the most profound application of differential geometry is to modern physics, which is beyond the scope of this book.