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IT is a curious fact that while projective geometry is becoming better appreciated in England it seems to be going out of favour in France. M. Duporcq, in his introduction, pathetically deplores the predominant place assigned to analysis in the syllabuses of the official examinations; and in France, as with ourselves, most teachers are compelled to neglect a subject that does not pay. It will be sad indeed if, in the fatherland of Monge, Poncelet and Chasles, pure geometry is to be deposed from her former high estate, and made a kind of Cinderella, called in to do odd jobs for Her Serene Highness the Princess Analyse, or to amuse the children with tricks of the triangle.
Premiers Principes de Géométrie Moderne.
Par E. Duporcq. Pp. viii + 160. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1899.)
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M., G. Premiers Principes de Géométrie Moderne. Nature 60, 314 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060314a0
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