Bob Miller's Geometry for the Clueless

by Bob Miller, Robert Miller

Overview

An easy-to-use guide that takes the fear out ofgeometry

Bob Miller’s Geometry for the Clueless tackles a subjectmore than three million students face every year.Miller acts as a private tutor, painstakingly coveringthe high school curriculum as well as post secondarycourses in geometry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071459020
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	10/31/2005
Series:	Bob Miller's Clueless Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	11.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Bob Miller has been a lecturer inMathematics at City College of New York for more than28 years.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Basics: Undefined Words, Some Defined Words, Axioms, and Postulates.Chapter 2: The Beginnings of Proofs. Chapter 3: Parallel Lines, Forever Together. Chapter 4: Mostly Triangles. Chapter 5: Secrets of Proving Triangles Congruent. Chapter 6: Similar Figures and Pythagoras Lives!!!! Chapter 7: Quadrilaterals Squarely Done. Chapter 8: Interior and Exterior Angles. Chapter 9: Areal Search and Securing the Perimeter. Chapter 10: Volumes and Surface Areas. Chapter 11: Circle One. Chapter 12: Lines (the Straight Kind) and Parabolas (not Straight). Chapter 13: Distance Formula, Midpoint, Circle Two, and Analytic Geometry Proofs. Chapter 14: Functions, Translations, Stretches, Contractions, Flips. Chapter 15: Parabolas II, Ellipses, and Hyperbolas. Chapter 16: Right and Not S right-angle Trig, Law of Sines, Law of Cosines. Chapter 17: Miscellaneous: Locus, Parallel Lines, Larger and Smaller Sides and Angles. Chapter 18: Always-Sometimes-Never Questions. (and more...)