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THIS is a textbook: it is not too difficult for the average ‘honours’ student, it includes the material usually required for examinations; yet it also includes less usual subjects such as line-geometry, cubic and quartic curves, cubic surfaces, ruled surfaces, higher space, the Veronese surface, the application of matrices, invariants and invariant factors; above all, it conveys something of the true spirit of modern geometry. For many years geometrical research has been made both easier and more effective by projective methods and space of more than three dimensions, but this had not hitherto found recognition in any sufficiently elementary English textbook.
Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions.
By Prof. D. M. Y. Sommerville. Pp. xvi + 416. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1934.) 18s. net.
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Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions . Nature 133, 967 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133967a0
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