Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Of Certain Modern Ideas and Methods: In Plan Analytical Geometry
To a certain small extent the field here marked out coincides with that already occupied by the later chapters of Salmon's Conic Sections. Recognizing that every English speaking student of mathematics must of necessity acquire an intimate knowledge of Dr. Salmon's incomparable treatises, I have gladly refrained from any discussion of this part, and have simply referred the reader to those chapters, adding occasionally the few words of explanation that seemed necessitated by the different order of treatment here adopted. It has not been my ambition to add another to the many excellent collections of problems already existing, but I trust the examples scattered through the pages will be found sufficient for purposes of illustration. As these, (many of which contain results of independent importance, ) are placed in general immediately after the account of the theorems on which they depend, their position sufficiently indicates the process of solution, and I have therefore in cluded a number of them in the index. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
