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MTH 338: Non-Euclidean Geometry

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Course Description
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Texts:

Wallace & West, Roads to Geometry (RG)

Krause, Taxicab Geometry (TG)

Exams:

4/25/97: Midterm 1 (finite, neutral, hyperbolic, spherical)

5/23/97: Midterm 2 (hyperbolic, elliptic, taxicab)

Reading Assignments:

Week 1: Skim RG § 1.1-1.2 and read RG § 1.3-1.4

Week 2: Read RG § 2.6 and/or Appendix D and skim RG § 3.2-3.4

Week 3: Skim RG § 3.5-3.6 and read RG § 6.2-6.3 & § 6.6

Week 4: Skim RG § 6.8

Week 5: Read RG § 6.8

Week 6: Read TG § 1-3

Week 7: Read TG § 4-5

Week 8: Skim RG § 6.4 and read RG § 6.5

Week 9: Read RG § 7.1-7.2 and skim RG § 7.3-7.5

Lab Assignments: (due anytime before the subsequent lab)

Lab 0 (4/4/97): Send me email

Lab 1 (4/11/97): Construct Euclidean triangle

Lab 2 (4/18/97): Construct hyperbolic triangle

Lab 3 (5/2/97): Construct elliptic triangle

Lab 4 (5/9/97): Taxicab circles

Lab 5 (6/6/97): Desargues' Theorem

Essay Assignments:

Due 4/14/97: Define non-Euclidean geometry

Due 5/9/97: Choose topic for project and explain why

Due 5/16/97: Project proposal

Due 5/30/97: Rough draft of project

Due at noon on 6/13/97: Final version of project

Homework Assignments:

Due 4/21/97: Prove SASAS congruence for quadrilaterals

Do by 5/9/97 (OPTIONAL): TG § 1:11bc and TG § 2:2,4,5

Do by 5/16/97 (OPTIONAL): TG § 3:7,15 and TG § 4:13ad