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So many text-books are available to day that the issue of a new one is generally accompanied by an explanation of its raison d'être. The one before us is that the present book seeks to develop the subject in a more gradual and more explanatory manner than its predecessors, and to pay more attention to curve tracing. That it succeeds in this endeavour will be gathered from a perusal of its pages, for no pains seemed to have been spared to lead the reader up small but ever rising steps. To gather a general notion of the scope of the book, we may say that, after briefly describing the three varieties of conies, the student is made acquainted with the general equation of the second degree, and the classification of curves which are represented by such an equation. This is followed by more detailed information relating to various properties of curves, taken at first generally and afterwards individually. The exercises are graduated as much as possible as regards difficulty of solution, and are very numerous.
The Elements of Co-ordinate Geometry.
“The University Tutorial Series”. Part II. The Conic. By J. H. Grace and F. Rosenberg. Pp. viii + 315. (London: W. B. Clive, 1899.)
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The Elements of Co-ordinate Geometry . Nature 61, 412 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061412d0
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