Principles of Geometry: Volume 4 - Brossura

Baker, H. F.

 
9781108017800: Principles of Geometry: Volume 4

Sinossi

A benchmark study of projective geometry and the birational theory of surfaces, first published between 1922 and 1925.

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Descrizione del libro

Henry Frederick Baker (1866–1956) was a renowned British mathematician specialising in algebraic geometry. First published between 1922 and 1925, this work provides a detailed insight into the geometry which was developing at the time of publication. Volume 4 describes the principal configurations of space of four and five dimensions.

Contenuti

Preface; 1. Introductory. Relations of the geometry of two, three, four and five dimensions; 2. Hart's theorem, for circles in a plane, or for sections of a quadric; 3. The plane quartic curve with two double points; 4. A particular figure in space of four dimensions; 5. A figure of fifteen lines and points, in space of four dimensions and associated loci; 6. A quartic surface in space of four dimensions. The cyclide; 7. Relations in space of five dimensions. Kummer's surface; Corrections to volume 3; Index.

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