Geometric Transformations

Course: MAT 479 2.0 Geometric Transformations (Optional)

Course content:

Isometries in the plane; Isometries in space; Affine transformations, Properties of affine transformations, Fundamental theorem of affine transformations, Affine transformations of conic sections; 3D form of affine transformations and applications; Introduction to Projective spaces, Projective geometric transformations.

 Recommended Readings:

  1. Dodge C.W., Euclidean Geometry and Transformations, Dover Publications, 2004.
  2. Modenov P.S., Parkhomenko A.S., Geometric Transformations, SURVEY OF RECENT EAST    EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL LITERATURE, Vol. I, 1965.
  3. Yaglom I.M., Geometric Transformations I, The Mathematical Association of America, 1975.
  4. Struik D.J., Lectures on Analytic & Projective Geometry, Dover Publications, 2011.