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Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions

Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions

Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions

D. M. Y. Sommerville
April 2016
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9781316601907

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    Originally published in 1934, this informative textbook was written by renowned mathematician and astronomer Duncan Sommerville (1879–1934). Primarily aimed at undergraduates, the book carefully starts from the very beginning of the subject, but also engages with concepts which are considered profoundly more specialist in the field of geometry. Following on from a renewed and flourishing interest in geometry at the time, this textbook was 'written more in accordance with the tendencies of the present', placing a different emphasis on the subject's cornerstone principles and illuminating new developments in the field. Chapters are detailed and contain material often required for examinations; topics covered include the Cartesian coordinate system and tangential equations. Well planned, with a scholarly treatment of the subject and capturing a unified knowledge of geometry, this book will be a considerably valuable source to scholars of mathematics as well as to anyone with an interest in the history of education.

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    April 2016
    Paperback
    9781316601907
    434 pages
    24 × 133 × 27 mm
    0.5kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • 1. Cartesian coordinate-system
    • 2. The straight line and plane
    • 3. General homogeneous or projective coordinates
    • 4. The sphere
    • 5. The cone and cylinder
    • 6. Types of surfaces of the second order
    • 7. Elementary properties of quadric surfaces derived from their simplest equations
    • 8. The reduction of the general equation of the second degree
    • 9. Generating lines and parametric representation
    • 10. Plane sections of a quadric
    • 11. Tangential equations
    • 12. Foci and focal properties
    • 13. Linear systems of quadrics
    • 14. Curves and developables
    • 15. Invariants of a pair of quadrics
    • 16. Line geometry
    • 17. Algebraic surfaces
    • Index.
      Author
    • D. M. Y. Sommerville