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(1) PROFS. ROBERTS AND COLPITTS have wisely included in a single course on “Analytic Geometry” the most important parts of the theory of conic sections, the theory of curves in Cartesian and polar co-ordinates, and the elements of solid geometry treated analytically, thus representing as a connected whole the parts of co-ordinate geometry in which every university student of mathematics should be thoroughly grounded. The book is very sound peda-gogically, the treatment being based largely on the intuitive use of geometrical constructions. The figures are well and neatly drawn, and many of the curves are accurately plotted.
(1) Analytic Geometry.
By Prof. Maria M. Roberts Prof. Julia T. Colpitts. Pp. x + 245. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1918.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
(2) Elementary Mensuration, Constructive Plane Geometry, and Numerical Trigonometry.
By P. Goyen. Pp. viii + 169. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1919.) Price 3s. 6d.
(3) Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics.
By James Byrnie Shaw. Pp. vii + 206. (Chicago and London: The Open Court Publishing Co., 1918.) Price 6s. net.
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BRODETSKY, S. (1) Analytic Geometry (2) Elementary Mensuration, Constructive Plane Geometry, and Numerical Trigonometry (3) Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics. Nature 104, 390–391 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104390a0
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