Table of Contents

1 Axioms for Plane Geometry.- 2 Some Neutral Theorems of Plane Geometry.- 3 Qualitative Description of the Hyperbolic Plane.- 4 ?3 and Euclidean Approximations in ?2.- 5 Differential Geometry of Surfaces.- 6 Quantitative Considerations.- 7 Consistency and Categoricalness of the Hyperbolic Axioms; The Classical Models.- 8 Matrix Representation of the Isometry Group.- 9 Differential and Hyperbolic Geometry in More Dimensions.- 10 Connections with the Lorentz Group of Special Relativity.- 11 Constructions by Straightedge and Compass in the Hyperbolic Plane.

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"The book is well laid out with no shortage of diagrams and with each chapter prefaced with its own useful introduction...Also well written, it makes pleasurable reading." Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society