Geometry
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Geometry
Robin Hartshorne
5 people recommended it in 4 threads, 2009–2022.
What people on Hacker News said
Robin Hartshorne's "Geometry: Euclid and Beyond" is the best book of its kind. It does Euclidean geometry with Hilbert's axioms and cleans up some of the loose ends of Euclid's classical treatment.
Hartshorns book also covered the 5th postulate very thoroughly and non-Euclidean geometry. Hyperbolic geometry is treated axiomatically.
He also has a nice treatment of axiomatic projective geometry which you can download for free.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics? 2019 · 2 recommendations
- Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study? 2022 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise? 2018 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: Best Mathematics book for complete noobie? 2009 · 1 recommendation