Department of Mathematics College of Arts & Sciences University of Kentucky
		MA 341 – 001 Topics in Geometry Fall 2011

Thought for the Day: If toast always lands butter-side down and cats always land on their feet, what happens when you strap a piece of toast on the back of a cat?

General Class Information

Class Syllabus . Click here for a PDF version for printing.

List of topics to be covered each day.  Click here for a PDF version for printing.

Class notes and homework are available as PDF files.  You need to have a copy of Adobe Reader to open these. 

Class Worksheets and Lecture Notes

Day 1 – The Origins and Weapons of Geometry
                     Read this short story about π

Most of the remaining class notes will be available on the class Blackboard page available here.

Non-Blackboard access to lecture notes and classnotes.

This link contains links to all of the Homework, PowerPoint slides and supplemental materials for class.

Geometry Axioms

Day 3 – Different axiom systems that have been used in teaching Euclidean Geometry.

Eulid's Axioms (~300 BCE)

Hilbert's Axioms (1906, Grundelagen der Geometrie)

Birkoff's Axioms (1931, Foundations of Geometry, Annals of Mathematics)

SMSG Axioms (1961)

Assignments  and Solutions are placed on the Blackboard web page

Geometry Links of Interest

·       Here is a list of quotations about mathematics and mathematicians

·       A History of Geometry from David Joyce at Clark University

·       Hyperbolic Geometry using Cabri

·       Hyperbolic Geometry using CabriJava

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