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Projective geometry

Title
Projective geometry / by Oswald Veblen and John Wesley Young.
Author
Veblen, Oswald, 1880-1960.
Publication
Boston ; New York : Ginn and Co., [1910-18]

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Additional Authors
Young, John Wesley, 1879-1932
Description
2 volumes : diagrams; 24 cm
Subject
  • Geometry, Projective
  • Geometria Projetiva
Contents
  • Vol. 1-342p. -- Vol. 2-511p. / by O. Veblen.
  • vol. 1. Theorems of alignment and the principle of duality -- Projection, section, perspectivity. Elementary configurations -- Projectivities of the primitive geometric forms of one, two, and three dimensions -- Harmonic constructions and the fundamental theorem of projective geometry -- Conic sections -- Algebra of points and one-dimensional coordinate systems -- Coordinate systems in two- and three-dimensional forms -- Projectivities in one-dimensional forms -- Geometric constructions. Invariants -- Projective transformations of two-dimensional forms -- Families of lines.
  • vol. 2. Foundations -- Elementary theorems on order -- The affine group in the plane -- Euclidean plane geometry -- Ordinal and metric properties of conics -- Inversion geometry and related topics -- Affine and Euclidean geometry of three dimensions -- Non-Euclidean geometries -- Theorems on sense and separation.
LCCN
10022268
OCLC
  • ocm00528507
  • 528507
  • SCSB-420279
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library