Course: AMT 111 2.0 Analytical Geometry (Compulsory)
Course content:
Early Geometry; Eratosthenes Experiment finding the radius of the earth, Pythagoras theorem and Pythagoras Triples; The Geometry of Euclidean Plane; Conics, Properties of conics, recognizing conics; Plane curves; parametric representation of plane curves, simple curves, closed curves, length of a curve, Quadratic Surfaces; Introduction to Quadratic surfaces in Euclidean 3-space, Recognizing quadratic surfaces, Rulings of quadratic surfaces.
Recommended Readings:
- Fenn,R. (2000). Geometry, Springer.
- Brannan,D.A., Esplen,M.F., & Gray,J.J. (1999). Geometry. Cambridge University Press,
- Coxeter,H.S.M. (1969). Introduction to Geometry. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.