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THE systematic study of what is now called line geometry was begun by Plücker in his “Neue Geometrie des Raumes.” There was, it is true, a fairly complete theory of the linear complex due to Chasles and others before the publication of Plücker's work, and the geometry of systems of lines (congruences) has in some respects not progressed very much since the date of Kümmer's celebrated memoir, but it was only after the idea of line coordinates had been introduced that the essential qualities of the new geometry were recognised.
A Treatise on the Line Complex.
By C. M. Jessop. Pp. xv + 364. (Cambridge: University Press, 1903.) Price 10s. net.
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G., J. A Treatise on the Line Complex . Nature 69, 27 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069027a0
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