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Kiselev's Geometry — Book I: Planimetry

by A. P. Kiselev

Translated by Valery Manokhin, PhD

The first complete English translation of Kiselev's proof-based Euclidean geometry. 269 sections across 6 chapters: basic concepts, triangles, circles, similarity, regular polygons, and areas. PDF, paperback, and hardcover.

6 chapters · 269 numbered articles · 220 pages

Where this fits in school — US, UK and Canada ↓ Adults and self-learners welcome — great mathematics has no age limit.

United States8–10Geometry — the whole course except coordinate geometry and transformations
United KingdomYears 8–11KS3 → GCSE Higher; circle theorems are Higher-only
CanadaOntario 8–10MPM2D (less its analytic unit) · BC Geometry 12 · QC Secondary II–IV

Not covered in this book

coordinate geometry · transformations on a grid · vectors · statistics and data handling · probability

Source these strands elsewhere. They are missing from the book, not from this description.

How this book fits

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Work through first

Covers much of the same ground

  • One volume covering this and the solid geometry together, with 450 figures — but without the chapter on the trigonometric functions of an acute angle.

These overlap heavily. Each note says what that book has which this one does not — the differences are what decide between them.

What comes next

Further reading

A historical text to read beside the course, not a substitute for it.

Table of contents

29 section headings — the printed contents page in full.

Translator's Preface

Introduction3 sections
  1. The Plane
  2. The Straight Line
  3. The Concept of a Circle
The Straight Line6 sections
  1. Angles
  2. Mathematical Propositions
  3. Triangles
  4. Basic Construction Problems
  5. Parallel Lines
  6. Parallelograms and Trapezoids
The Circle7 sections
  1. Shape and Position of a Circle
  2. Arcs, Chords, and Distances of Chords from the Centre
  3. Relative Position of a Line and a Circle
  4. Relative Position of Two Circles
  5. Inscribed and Certain Other Angles. Construction of a Tangent
  6. Inscribed and Circumscribed Polygons
  7. Four Remarkable Points of a Triangle
Similar Figures9 sections
  1. The Concept of Measurement of Magnitudes
  2. Similarity of Triangles
  3. Similarity of Polygons
  4. Similarity of Arbitrary Figures
  5. Some Theorems on Proportional Segments
  6. Metric Relations Between Elements of a Triangle and Certain Other Figures
  7. Proportional Lines in a Circle
  8. Trigonometric Functions of an Acute Angle
  9. On the Application of Algebra to Geometry
Regular Polygons and the Circumference2 sections
  1. Regular Polygons
  2. Computation of the Circumference and Its Parts
Measurement of Areas2 sections
  1. Areas of Polygons
  2. Area of a Circle and Its Parts

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Product details

Publisher
Northern Star Academic Press
Language
English
Translator
Valery Manokhin, PhD
Print length
220 pages
First published
2026-07-14

Published by Northern Star Academic Press · First faithful English translation from the original Russian edition

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