Mg0612499v1 18 dec 2006 n j wildberger school of mathematics and statistics unsw sydney 2052 australia december 18, 2006 abstract by recasting metrical geometry in a purely algebraic setting, both euclidean and noneuclidean geometries can be studied over a general field with an arbitrary quadratic form. We cannot guarantee that rational geometery book is in. By avoiding real numbers, it also avoids what wildberger claims are foundational. It contains a linked index to all the videos, and individual shots of each screen of each lecture.
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Wildberger, currently a professor of mathematics at the university of new south wales. Pdf affine and projective universal geometry norman. Triangles isosceles triangles equilateral triangles right triangles congruent and similar triangles solving triangles laws of proportion triangle proportions quadrilateral proportions two struts theorem stewarts theorem median. Divine proportions school of mathematics and statistics. It was developed by the author in his 2005 book divine proportions.
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