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THIS is a book for which there is not likely to be any great demand in Great Britain. Yet it may be questioned whether more attention ought not to be paid to this kind of work in the ordinary honours course. For example, there are students who specialise in geometry without learning anything about the modern theory of its foundations. Perhaps some knowledge of the subject matter of the introduction of this volume might be required of them. Again, projective geometry is a subject of increasing reputation, in that its foundations are secure against some of the attacks which are destroying our confidence in anything that depends upon measurement. Lastly, the physicist can no longer afford to regard the non-Euclidean systems as an idle fancy of the mathematician's brain. It is not suggested, of course, that this particular book could be adopted for general use in Great Britain; but rather that something of the same kind, perhaps less elaborate, may before long be considered as part of the general education of the mathematician.
Lehrbuch der analytischen Geometrie: Grundlagen, Projektive, Euklidische, Nichteuklidische Geometrie.
Prof.
L.
Heffter
Prof.
C.
Koehler
Von. Band 1: Grundlagen, Grundgebilde I. Stufe, Euklidische Ebene. Zweite wesentlich umgearbeitete und vermehrte Auflage. Pp. xvii + 477. (Karlsruhe: G. Braun, 1927.) 20 gold marks.
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R., A. Lehrbuch der analytischen Geometrie: Grundlagen, Projektive, Euklidische, Nichteuklidische Geometrie. Nature 121, 937 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121937b0
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