Geometry

Except for some pages that have some writing in pencil, this book is like new. I would not hesitate to order another book from you! I received the book in less time than I thought...

Excellent textbook, i bought it for my son as a recommended textbook for a course at Johns Hopkins CTY online course he was attending. Very concise, well thought problems to solve.

As a math teacher and tutor, I disagree with those who say this book is too hard. This book is exactly what a typical geometry textbook looked like in the 1980s and early 1990s. It clearly explains concepts with plenty of examples. It is well-organized. It has a comprehensive glossary, index, and list of theorems and postulates. It presents exercises in order of difficulty, beginning with the easiest. It offers many exercises per section (often 30 or even 50), rather than just 10 or 20. The answers to the odd problems are in the back. In short, it is exactly what any student ought to have in a geometry book. Clearly, there will always be some students who struggle and some who find geometry to be a challenging subject, in general. However, any average or above average student really ought to be able to read this book and learn geometry from it. The problem is that students simply haven't learned how to use a textbook! I constantly have to teach students how to use the table of contents, index, glossary, etc. Once a student learns these study skills, s/he ought to be able to take this book and run with it, assuming s/he has sufficient basic algebra skills to succeed in geometry. On the contrary, the Geometry book by Larson, Boswell, et al (also published by McDougal Littell) is simply horrendous. It is so replete with dazzling colors and uninformative pictures that I can hardly find the theorems. (It's like a "Where's Waldo?" of theorems and postulates.) By contrast, the Jurgensen book may look dry, but the authors conservatively reserve color to bring your attention to the most important information, such as theorems you should memorize. And it works! The most important memorization-worthy information jumps off the page. I can find theorems and corollaries in this book almost as quickly as if the book were tabbed. As a tutor, this book will always be my go-to geometry textbook. No matter what textbook they are using in school, I usually have my geometry clients purchase a used copy of the Jurgensen book to use as a reference. So far, all of them agree that it is much easier to use and better organized than any book they have used at school.

Simply Amazing AND INFORMATIVE

Le vendeur affichait: "comme neuf" dans son estimation de l'état du livre.On est loin du compte: coins de la reliure enfoncés, griffonnages au crayon sur quelques pages, dos de la reliure abîmé aux extrémités supérieure et inférieure.Bref, on est loin du compte, surtout pour le prix... Heureusement que la qualité intrinsèque de l'ouvrage "sauve" en partie (mais en partie seulement) la médiocrité de l'aspect extérieur.

libro de tapa dura, con glosario de términos y acertada explicación a los estudiantes sobre cómo acometer su estudio. creo que es un gran libro.

I purchased this book as a reference book for my technical library, but I am familiar with it through an earlier incantation back when I took honors Geometry more than 35 years ago. The Geometry book I used was part of the Houghton Mifflin Modern School Mathematics /Structure and Method series of texts used by my school district in the middle 1970's. Going through this book, I noted quite a few similarities between this version and the early 1970's edition I used in school. First and foremost this is a proof based book and a lot of time is spent presenting the axioms and building foundations for the student to be able to reason his/her way through two-column proofs. This is by no means an easy book, but it navigable by a diligent student who is willing to put forth the effort. Like the structure and Method series of texts, the exercises are good and tiered to the level of the student with A exercises for everybody, B exercises for your better students and C exercises students for top notch students looking for a challenge. I also found that time spent early on in getting the feel/mindset for the proof based approach of geometry paves the way as you work your way through the book. Once you get the feel, I found it was possible to read the book and work ahead of the class without terribly much effort. I have had the opportunity to see some of the texts that pass for Mathematics today. Unlike the watered-down texts that are foisted on us by bureaucratic decree. this book presents the subject matter of Geometry in a rigorous manner for the serious and gifted student considering a career in mathematics or physical sciences.