Code: 1-UMA-203

Continuous assessment: Test

Final assessment: Examination

Objective: Theory of affine mappings of Euclidean space and their classification in E2 and E3.

Course syllabus:
  1. Affine mapping of Euclidean spaces and its properties.
  2. Some subgroups of the group of affine transformations En.
  3. Classification of isometries E2 and their decomposition into axial symmetries.
  4. Classification of isometries E3 and their decomposition into plane symmetries.
  5. Similarities in En and their classification.

Literature:

Sekanina, M. et al.: Geometrie II, SPN Prague, 1988
Šedivý, O. et al.: Geometria 2, SPN Bratislava, 1987
Chalmovianský, P.: Geometry of affine mappings of Euclidean spaces. (for teaching combinations).
Berger, M.: Geometry 1, 2nd ed., Nathan, Paris, 1977, 1978 (Russian translation: Berže: Geometrija I, II, Moscow Mir 1984).