With dozens of stimulating exercises, this text integrates traditional differential and non-Euclidean geometries with more current computer systems in a practical and user-friendly format. The book features more than 300 figures reproducible using MATLAB®.

This text on geometry is devoted to various central geometrical topics including: graphs of functions, transformations, (non-)Euclidean geometries, curves and surfaces as well as their applications in a variety of disciplines. This book presents elementary methods for analytical modeling and demonstrates the potential for symbolic computational tools to support the development of analytical solutions.

The author systematically examines several powerful tools of MATLAB® including 2D and 3D animation of geometric images with shadows and colors, transformations using matrices, and then studies more complex geometrical modeling problems related to analysis of curves and surfaces. With over 150 stimulating exercises and problems, this text integrates traditional differential and non-Euclidean geometries with more current computer systems in a practical and user-friendly format.

This text greatly extends the author's previous title, Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Maple (Birkhäuser, © 2000), and has a different focus. In addition to being applications driven and motivated by numerous examples and exercises from real-world fields, the book also contains over 60 percent new material, including new sections with complex numbers, quaternions, matrices and transformations, hyperbolic geometry, fractals, and surface-splines and over 300 figures reproducible using MATLAB® programs.

This text is an excellent classroom resource or self-study reference for undergraduate students in a variety of disciplines, engineers, computer scientists, and instructors of appliedmathematics.

Covers basic MATLAB® and complex geometrical modeling problems related to analysis and differential equations Provides more than 150 stimulating exercises and problems and over 300 figures reproducible using MATLAB® Includes applications including numerous examples and exercises from a variety of real-world fields such as physics, engineering, biology, computer science, and IT

Autorentext

Vladimir Rovenski (University of Haifa) and Pawe Walczak (University of Lodz), are well-known scientists, specializing in differential geometry, topology and dynamics of foliations. Their scientific contact began in May/June of 1995 during the International Conference "Foliations: Geometry and Dynamics" in Warsaw. Their common interests in Riemannian geometry of foliations and submanifolds sparked the beginning of their scientific co-operation. The authors formed a common theme of research and the idea of a scientific relay race. The scientific relay race was started by Prof. Walczak who had won a Marie Curie grant and conducted research at Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne (Dijon, France) from 2003-2005. Prof. Rovenski won a similar Marie Curie grant and conducted research in cooperation with Walczak at the University of Lodz from 2008-2010. Their scientific synergies ongoing, and the scientific relay race is successfully continued by their students. The collaboration and friendship of the authors for over 25 years has led to several scientific works in extrinsic geometry of foliations of Riemannian and Finsler manifolds.

Inhalt
Functions and Transformations.- Functions and Graphs.- Rigid Motions (Isometries).- Affine and Projective Transformations.- Möbius Transformations.- Curves and Surfaces.- Examples of Curves.- Geometry of Curves.- Geometry of Surfaces.- Examples of Surfaces.- Piecewise Curves and Surfaces.