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THESE Examples will serve as an excellent compendium of results to a student who is working through Dr. Salmon's Treatises on Conic Sections and on the Higher Plane Curves. In fact it was whilst the author was reading the above-named works that he conceived these useful illustrative exercises. Mr. Roberts shows himself to be an apt mathematician, and to have a very extensive acquaintance with the classes of curves considered. These are mostly curves, of the second, third, and fourth orders. The Problems have been, in general, suggested by Dr. Salmon's treatises and by Dr. Casey's Memoir on Bicircular Quartics: Mr. Roberts also acknowledges his indebtedness to Darboux's Sur une classe remarquable de courbes et de surfaces algébriques. Occasional explanatory matter is thrown in here and there, and concise proofs are given in several cases. As the text-books contain a limited number of examples, this work will be a useful supplement to them. We like almost everything about the book except the paper, and that appears to us to be of a very inferior character.
A Collection of Examples and Problems on Conics and some of the Higher Plane Curves.
By Ralph A. Roberts (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co., 1882.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 26, 197 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026197b0
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