CORRECTIONS TO KNOWN ERRORS
in
GEOMETRY FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS
by
I. Martin Isaacs
- Page 17, in the hint to Exercise 1D.9: Change
‘C’ to ‘B’.
- Page 21, 6 lines from bottom: Change
‘it it’ to ‘it is’.
- Page 21, last line:
Change ‘a = b’
to ‘c = b’ .
- Page 22, line 8: Delete
‘/2’.
- Page 23, in Exercise 1E.2: Change
‘side BC of’ to
‘base BC of isosceles’.
- Page 43, line 5 of solution to Problem 1.30:
Change ‘AC’ to
‘BC’.
- Page 55, line 7:
Change ‘AHB’
to ‘AHC’ .
- Page 104. Exercise 3A.4 is wrong.
Replace it with this:
Show that each side of a triangle is one of its Simson lines.
- Page 116, 117 and 118: The numbering of the exercises
in Section 3C needs to be repaired.
- Page 118, 10 lines from bottom, in the note:
Change ‘D’ to
‘C’.
- Page 123, lines 10 and 11:
Change ‘distances MS and MT are’ to
‘MS2 and MT2 are’.
- Page 129, line 15, near end of line:
Change ‘mQ’
to ‘mC’.
- Page 133, 7 lines from the bottom, in the third of the three
displayed equations:
Change ‘CR’ to
‘CQ’
and also, change ‘RA’ to
‘QA’.
- Page 133, 3 lines from the bottom, following ‘and’ in
the third equation: make the same changes as above.
- Page 140, line 8 of third paragraph:
Change ‘perpendicularity to AC’
to ‘perpendicularity to AB’.
- Page 142, line 14:
Change ‘ Corollary 9 ’
to ‘ Corollary 10 ’.
- Page 150, in the second paragraph following Theorem 4.16:
In line 2 of the paragraph, add a comma after
‘parallel’.
- Page 150, in line 3 of the same paragraph: Change ‘4.18’ to ‘4.19’.
- Page 153, in the note following Exercise 4D.3: Change ‘Problem 3.16’ to
‘Problem 3.17’.
- Page 168, in first line of last paragraph: Change
‘Problem 5.8’ to
‘Problem 5.9’.
- Page 170, line 5: Change
‘KKBC’ to
‘KXBC’.
- Page 171, line 8: Change
‘the angle’ to
‘the cosine of the angle’.
- Page 177, in last line above the figure, the
arrow over ‘PQ’ should extend over
both letters, and not just the ‘P’.
- Page 179, in the 7th from last line of the proof, there is a
missing ‘)’ just before
‘ =’.
- Page 187, in Exercise 6A.5: Change
‘PBC’ to ‘PAB’.
- Page 189, 3 lines from bottom: Change
‘BQ’ to ‘BN’.
- Page 196, in the last line before exercises: Change
‘6.17’ to ‘6.16’.
IF YOU FIND OTHER ERRORS
PLEASE SEND E-MAIL TO
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