Principles of Geometry (Cambridge Library Collection: Mathematics (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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Short Description for Principles of Geometry A benchmark study of projective geometry and the birational theory of surfaces, first published between 1922 and 1925.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 31 October 2010
- Format: Paperback 262 pages
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- Categories: Geometry | Topology | Applied Mathematics | History Of Mathematics
- ISBN 13: 9781108017817 ISBN 10: 1108017819
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Full description for Principles of Geometry
Henry Frederick Baker (1866-1956) was a renowned British mathematician specialising in algebraic geometry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1898 and appointed the Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry in the University of Cambridge in 1914. First published between 1922 and 1925, the six-volume Principles of Geometry was a synthesis of Baker's lecture series on geometry and was the first British work on geometry to use axiomatic methods without the use of co-ordinates. The first four volumes describe the projective geometry of space of between two and five dimensions, with the last two volumes reflecting Baker's later research interests in the birational theory of surfaces. The work as a whole provides a detailed insight into the geometry which was developing at the time of publication. This, the fifth volume, describes the birational geometry of curves.
