Classical and Transformational Geometry

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Geometry from both classical and transformational points of view. The classical part of the course will focus on the axiomatic development of neutral geometry followed by Euclidean and hyperbolic geometry. The transformational part of the course will begin with the study of two families of transformations: isometries and similarities, followed by the investigation of various geometric theorems in terms of these two families of transformations. Emphasis on proving geometric theorems using both classical and transformational approaches. Prereq: C- or better: MATH 310 and MATH 322.