Mathematical Illustrations: A Manual of Geometry and PostScript

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Table of contents Click here for information about this imagexxxxxxxxxx This manual has been available on this site since about 1996, with improvements taking place frequently. The current version has been published as a book of about 350 pages by Cambridge University Press. By agreement with the Press, however, it will remain posted on this web site. Many improvements in the current version over previous ones are due to the (anonymous) referees of the Press, whom I wish to thank heartily. I also wish to thank Lauren Cowles, of the New York office of the Press, for much help with preparing the original version for publication. The paper edition appears also in Duotone red and black. For information on obtaining the paper edition, take a look at the Cambridge Press catalogue. From January 1, 2004 on, no changes except simple error corrections will be made to the main body of the text here --- at least for a while. Corrections to both paper and web editions will be found below. I am grateful to all those who have pointed out errors or lacunae in older versions of this manual, and I hope readers will continue to send me mail about what they find - both good and bad - at cass@math.ubc.ca. Copyright � 2005 by Bill Casselman. Permission is granted for users of this resource to make one copy for their own personal use. Further reproduction is strictly prohibited without the express permission of the copyright holder. Introductory This text is offered in PDF format, but also in PostScript. To read the PostScript files, which are often faster to load, you will need a PostScript interpreter. But you will need one in any event in order to read the book fruitfully. You can obtain Ghostscript and viewers at the GhostScript home pages. You will probably want to set it as the program with which your browser reads .ps files (of type application/postscript). Preface Table of contents (for the entire text) Chapters 1 - 15 Chapter 1 - Getting started Chapter 2 - Elementary coordinate ...