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Kogan, B. Yu – 1974
Presented in this translation are three chapters. Chapter I discusses the composition of forces and several theorems of geometry are proved using the fundamental concepts and certain laws of statics. Chapter II discusses the perpetual motion postulate; several geometric theorems are proved using the postulate that perpetual motion is impossible.…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Force, Geometric Concepts, Geometry
Shreider, Yu A. – 1974
Presented is an elaboration of a course given at Moscow University for pupils in ninth and tenth grades. The development through abstraction of the general definition of distance is discussed and a class of spaces in which the notion of distance is defined, the so-called metric spaces, is introduced. The general concept of distance is related to a…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Geometric Concepts, Higher Education, Lecture Method