Principles of Geometry

by H. F. Baker

Overview

Henry Frederick Baker (1866–1956) was a renowned British mathematician specialising in algebraic geometry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1898 and appointed the Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry in the University of Cambridge in 1914. First published between 1922 and 1925, the six-volume Principles of Geometry was a synthesis of Baker's lecture series on geometry and was the first British work on geometry to use axiomatic methods without the use of co-ordinates. The first four volumes describe the projective geometry of space of between two and five dimensions, with the last two volumes reflecting Baker's later research interests in the birational theory of surfaces. The work as a whole provides a detailed insight into the geometry which was developing at the time of publication. This, the fourth volume, describes the principal configurations of space of four and five dimensions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108017800
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/31/2010
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Preliminary; 1. General properties of conics; 2. Properties relative to two points of reference; 3. The equation of a line, and of a conic; 4. Restriction of the algebraic symbols. The distinction of real and imaginary elements; 5. Properties relative to an absolute conic. The notion of distance. Non-Euclidean geometry; Notes; Index.