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A TEXT-BOOK for students who have already finished the straight line and circle: its contents are about equally divided between the conic sections and the geometry of three dimensions, finishing with confocal quadrics and a chapter on curvature. The author wisely uses the calculus for finding gradients, but also gives the alternative treatment. The book can be confidently recommended for boys reading for scholarships and for first-year students at universities.
Analytical Geometry of Conic Sections and Elementary Solid Figures.
Dr.
A. Barrie
Grieve
By. Pp. xv + 314 + xiv. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1925.) 9s. net.
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Analytical Geometry of Conic Sections and Elementary Solid Figures . Nature 116, 896 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116896d0
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