Abstract
THIS interesting volume, by the headmaster of the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster, provides an elementary course in analytical conies for the use of pupils preparing for the various Higher Certificate Examinations and for scholarships. It opens with a lucid introduction showing that the conies are really plane sections of a cone-a vital point so often overlooked. Then follow seven chapters on the point, straight lines, equations and the transference of axes, the circle, parabola, ellipse and hyperbola. Chapter viii is devoted to a discussion of oblique axes, whilst the final section contains one hundred examples from recent Higher Certificate papers.
Elementary Analytical Conics
By Dr. J. H. Shackleton Bailey. Pp. v + 378. (London: Oxford University Press, 1936.) 7s. 6d.
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[Short Notices]. Nature 139, 461 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139461c0
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