Bob Miller's Geometry for the Clueless, 2nd

An easy-to-use guide that takes the fear out of geometry Bob Miller'sGeometry for the Cluelesstackles a subject more than three million students face every year. Miller acts as a private tutor, painstakingly covering the high school curriculum as well as post secondary courses in geometry.

Bob Miller has been a lecturer in Mathematics at City College of New York for more than 28 years.

What Is Geometry? Why Should I Take It?	p. xi
The Basics: Undefined Words, Defined Words, Axioms, and Postulates	p. 1
The Beginnings of Proofs	p. 15
Improvement of Reasoning: Statement, Converse, Inverse, Contrapositive; Necessary and Sufficient Conditions; If and Only If	p. 25
Parallel Lines, Forever Together	p. 31
Mostly Triangles	p. 37
Secrets of Proving Congruent Triangles	p. 45
Similar Figures and Pythagoras Lives!!!	p. 69
Quadrilaterals Squarely Done	p. 81
Interior and Exterior Angles	p. 89
Areal Search and Securing the Perimeter	p. 93
Volumes and Surface Areas	p. 103
Circle I	p. 109
Lines (The Straight Kind) and Parabolas I (Not Straight)	p. 123
Distance Formula, Midpoint Formula, Circle II, and Analytic Geometry Proofs	p. 133
Functions, Translations, Stretches, Contractions, and Flips	p. 143
Parabolas II, Ellipses, and Hyperbolas	p. 151
Right and Not So Right-Angle Trig, Law of Sines, and Law of Cosines	p. 165
Constructions	p. 173
Indirect Proofs; Disproving by Counterexample; and Too Much, Just Enough, or Not Enough	p. 187
Miscellaneous: Locus; Parallel Lines; and Larger and Smaller Sides and Angles	p. 193
Twenty-First-Century SAT Spin on Geometry	p. 197
Always-Sometimes-Never Questions	p. 207
Answers: You Should Always Draw the Picture If You Are Having Problems	p. 217
A Radical Chapter	p. 223
Index	p. 237
Acknowledgments	p. 241
About Bob Miller... In His Own Words	p. 243
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