The Twenty-Seven Lines upon the Cubic Surface

Abstract

THIS volume is a record of an individual attempt to construct numerical models of the cubic surface, founded on the lines of the surface; it is carried through with great earnestness, and so far as possible with the simplest materials; its obvious sincerity cannot fail to be inspiring to anyone who will be at pains to understand it. It would be a mistake to criticise the earlier half of the book as if it were a treatise on the cubic surface; it is the author's assembling'of his materials for the constructions which follow, and the very want of elaboration which it occasionally exhibits is a proof, if an incidental one, of the independence with which the author has carried out his research. Perhaps the analytical investigation of the double-six theorem, which occupies pp. 16 to 19, is an extreme case; a geometrical proof might have been given, though the author's is simple and self-contained.

The Twenty-Seven Lines upon the Cubic Surface.

Prof. A. Henderson. Pp. vi + 100 + 13 plates. (Cambridge: University Press, 1911.) Price 4s. 6d. (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematical Physics. No. 13.)