Course Notes and web site for Euclidean Geometry
This is a set of course notes for an IBL college mathematics course in classical Euclidean Geometry. Material covered corresponds roughly to the first four books of Euclid. Problems are chosen to complement the text, and to teach the following basic arts of a mathematician:
- finding and constructing arguments
- proper use and making of mathematical definitions
- making conjectures
- resolving questions
The typical audience for this class consists of second and third year students at a medium-sized, comprehensive public University. Most students are pre-service teachers.
This set of notes began as an outgrowth of Chapter One of Robin Hartshorne's Geometry: Euclid and Beyond. Readers who compare these notes to that excellent text will see the clear debt owed.
author: Theron J Hitchman initial notes from 2007, latest copy 2014.