{"product_id":"9781937842390","title":"Essential Geometry: A Self-Teaching Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis no-nonsense guide provides students and self-learners with a clear and readable study of geometry's most important ideas. Tim Hill's distraction-free approach combines decades of tutoring experience with the methods of his old-school Russian math teachers. The result: learn in a few days what conventional schools stretch into months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeaches general principles that can be applied to a wide variety of problems.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvoids the mindless and excessive routine computations that characterize conventional textbooks.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTreats geometry as a logically coherent discipline, not as a disjointed collection of techniques.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRestores proofs to their proper place to remove doubt, convey insight, and encourage precise logical thinking.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOmits digressions, excessive formalities, and repetitive exercises.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes problems and solutions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Triangles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Circles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Cylinders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Cones\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Spheres\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Solutions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Geometry Cheat Sheet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTim Hill is a private math tutor and data scientist living in Boulder, Colorado. He holds degrees in mathematics and statistics from Stanford University and the University of Colorado. When he's not crunching numbers, Tim climbs rocks, hikes canyons, and avoids malls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Questing Vole Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044151640304,"sku":"9781937842390","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781937842390_p0.jpg?v=1763662559","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937842390","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}