Lanterna Rally

Author: Benedict Sestini

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 9781330211663

Excerpt from A Treatise of Analytical Geometry This treatise of Analytical Geometry, which in progress of time may form a part of a complete course of mathematics, although destined at present for a class in Georgetown College, is offered also to those students who cultivate this branch of science in other public institutions. To all these the present introduction is addressed, together with the following treatise, divided into four parts or books: the first of which treats of co-ordinates, and geometrical loci on a plane; the second of co-ordinates, and geometrical loci in space; the third treats of lines of the second order; and the fourth of surfaces of the same order. The first and second are nothing more than an introduction to the principal object of this part of analysis which is exclusively treated of in the third and fourth books. The learner will probably find in our method something not entirely conformable to that usually adopted in other similar works; thus, for instance, in the third and fourth books he will easily remark that the questions are reduced to some principal heads, from which, as from a nucleus, we derive the theory of the lines and surfaces of the second order. 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.