Exploring Geometry

Errata (Gold Cover Draft)

This web page lists errors that have been discovered in the draft version (gold cover) of the text Exploring Geometry , by Mike Hvidsten.  Please note that any changes involving mathematical notation are expressed in TeX form.
If you discover errors other than those listed, please email them to hvidsten(at)gustavus.edu


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Discoverer
13
25
Replace "Let x be the ratio of AB to AG." by "Let x be the length of AG."
9-1-2004
M Hvidsten
65
9
Insert a left parend before the phrase "refer to Fig 2.9)"
9-21-2004
P Nichols
67
14
(Ex 2.2.3)
Replace "exactly three sides" with "three (or more) sides"
9-27-2004
B Zirbes
87
5,6
(Ex 2.5.5)
The overlines should be removed from the fractions defining sin and cos.
9-16-2004
Bill Stegemoller
160
9
Add the line "It suffices to prove the result for the case where B is outside c. (Why?)" after the sentence "Given a circle ... radius OA."
9-1-2004
M Hvidsten
160
16
Replace "\Delta CGB and \Delta CEO" by "\Delta GBO and \Delta EOB"       
9-1-2004
M Hvidsten
160
15-16
Replace "and congruent" by "are congruent"
9-1-2004
M Hvidsten
178
31 (-2)
Add ", where P' is the reflection of P onto l." at the end of the sentence "... P'Q."
9-11-2004
M Hvidsten
179
10
Replace "In this figure PR" by "In this figure P'R"
9-11-2004
M Hvidsten
179
12
Replace the entire text of the hint with "[Hint: Use the distance-preserving property of a folding (reflection).]"
9-11-2004
M Hvidsten
218
23
Replace "the fourth condition" with "the second condition"
11-17-2004
P Nichols
228
4
(Ex 5.7.1)
Replace "is a translation if" with "is a translation if and only if"
11-17-2004
P Nichols
248
Paragraph 4
There is a section of text that did not print. The paragraph should read
"First, we note that all translations in $\mathcal{T}$ must be generated by integer combinations of $v$ and $w$. For suppose $T_z$ was a translation with $z$ not an integer combination of $v$ and $w$. The two vectors $v,w$ define a parallelogram in the plane and the set of all integer combinations of $v,w$ will divide up the plane into congruent parallelograms."
11-17-2004
P Nichols
252
14
The first fraction should be "\frac{360}{6}"
11-29-2004
P Nichols
240-241

All references to the "dihedral group of order n" should be replaced by "dihedral group of order 2n". 11-15-2004
Geometry class at Gustavus - fall 2004
328
6
Replace "exercise 5.7.2" with "exercise 5.7.3".
9-21-2004
M Hvidsten
329
10
The term " PP' " should be overlined.
9-21-2004
M Hvidsten
331
last line
Replace "the fact" with "assume"
9-27-2004
M Hvidsten
332
11
Replace "will map the disk to f" with "will map the disk to c"
11-29-2004
M Hvidsten
343
19,20 in
Ex 8.6.4
Replace "radius c" with "radius hr" and
Replace "sinh(c)" with "sinh(hr)"
9-27-2004
M Hvidsten
344
4
Delete "Hint: " 
9-27-2004
M Hvidsten
347
13
In the expression for x, the numerator should be "2u"
9-27-2004
M Hvidsten
348
6
Replace "Given a triangle," with "Given a doubly limiting triangle,"
9-27-2004
M Hvidsten
377
8 in
Ex 9.6.6
Replace "N_1(A)=3, N_2(A)=3^2, N_3(A)=3^3, and so on." with "N_1(S)=3, N_2(S)=3^2, N_3(S)=3^3, and so on, where S is Sierpinski's Triangle." 9-27-2004
M Hvidsten
381
17
Replace "about 0.35" with "about 0.3"
9-28-2004
M Hvidsten
381
23 (-4)
Replace "about 0.37" with "about 0.3" 9-28-2004 M Hvidsten