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MR. BLYTHE has attempted a difficult task, to give an account of methods of constructing models of a cubic surface without either assuming all the theory of the surface as known or recapitulating it; the result, so far as the introductory portions of the book are concerned, is an unsatisfying mixture of rudiments and quotations and references to difficult theorems. As regards the latter portion Mr. Blythe may best speak for himself. “About ten years ago my attention was drawn to arranging the twenty-seven straight lines. … After constructing several models, I did not continue the series, for I subsequently found that a complete set had been made in Germany. … Copies of these models can be purchased. Still the models described in this book are sufficient to give an idea of the shape of a cubic surface.”
On Models of Cubic Surfaces.
By W. H. Blythe. Pp. xii + 106. (Cambridge: University Press, 1905.) Price 4s. net.
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On Models of Cubic Surfaces . Nature 74, 197 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074197b0
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