Abstract
IT will be immediately admitted by all mathematicians that the foundations of pure geometry were well and truly laid by the Greeks in the period preceding and succeeding the time of Christ. They investigated in great detail the properties of the straight line, the circle and the conic sections. They had few general principles governing their researches; they were on the outlook for interesting geometrical properties wherever they could find them. On the other hand, Euclid attempted to collect all these scattered theorems and to present them in a coherent whole, studying at the same time so far as he could the underlying postulates and axioms. Nevertheless, it still remains true that the discovery of individual theorems was rather at haphazard.
Principles of Geometry.
By Prof. H. F. Baker. Vol. 5: Analytical Principles of the Theory of Curves. Pp. x + 247. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1933.) 15s. net.
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M., W. Principles of Geometry. Nature 133, 155–157 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133155b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133155b0
