Geometry | 
 enlarge | Author: Harold R. Jacobs
Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 282288
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 668
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Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 7.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 071671745X
Dewey Decimal Number: 516.2
EAN: 9780716717454
Publication Date: January 1987
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My favorite high school geometry text March 18, 1998
61 out of 61 found this review helpful
Jacobs is a great teacher and he has written a book that contains much of the essence of that teaching. He presents the material well, with entertaining hooks and careful exposition. There's a good mix of approaches (transformational, intuitive, and rigorous) and a good mix of problems (easy, medium, hard, a few really hard). It's the best balanced of all the geometry texts I've seen. The one drawback is that it doesn't respond to modern trends of using more discovery-based inductive approaches, or using tools like Geometer's Sketchpad or Cabri. Michael Serra's _Discovering Geometry_ is a good source of problems and activities if you wish to supplement your course with this sort of thing.
Jacobs sugar-coats the process of rigorous proof! September 22, 1999
Chang Yuon (Emeryville, CA USA)
51 out of 53 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed reading this text. This book is very sensitive to students who are encountering proof for the first time. Jacobs does a great job in building the subject. His motivations and also the humor in text is what makes this book so enjoyable to read. What's more amazing is that he still maintains all the rigor that is critical for advance studies in mathematics.
The best geometry textbook in existence, bar none. January 26, 2003
Edward Lee (Cambridge, MA United States)
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
A very clear, very entertaining textbook for a high-school course on geometry.This book introduces logical proofs right at the beginning; you may have some difficulty convincing your kids or yourself that you need to work out all these silly logic puzzles in order to begin studying geometry, but you do. From there on, the book is a sheer joy to read, full of interesting and tricky problems, clear explanations, and of course those famous B.C. and Peanuts clips.
A Very Good Geometry Book February 7, 2002
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
A good geometry book for high school students. It teaches everything one needs to know about basic euclidean geometry with intuitive lessons and clear explinations of all the content. One thing to note though is that you need a strong understanding of the algerbraic principals of equality, and the fact that the teachers edition is very hard to come by.
Worked every problem May 14, 2002
William Alan Benson (Jenks, OK USA)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
I have no experience with other geometry books--although I did use the Schaum book and other "outline" help books early in the school year as a reference. Actually Jacobs was easier to use than the "outline" help books. Many problems skate close to calculus (limits are introduced) and analytic geometry. Some problems are quite nearly elegant. Highly recommended.
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