Extending Frontiers of Mathematics
by Edward B. Burger

    

The book under review is an expanded translation of a unique phenomenon in the Russian mathematical literature. If nothing else, its staying power may serve an enticement to anyone interested in, or involved with, high school geometry. First published in 1892 by A. P. Kiselev as Elementary Geometry, by 1940 it underwent more than 40 revisions and eventually became a measuring rod for geometry education in Russia against which all other textbooks had to be judged. Its introduction to the English speaking student and teacher is more than welcome. The effort by Professor A. Givental who translated the book from Russian and combined pieces of the many editions of the original deserves a wholehearted recognition and sincere praise.

 

Extending Frontiers of Mathematics by Edward B. Burger. Key College Publishing, 2006. Softcover, 128 pp, $49.95. ISBN 1-59757-042-7.

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