Principles of Geometry (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics) - Softcover

Baker, H. F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108017827 ISBN 13: 9781108017824

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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 sixth and final volume, describes the birational geometric theory of surfaces.

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Henry Frederick Baker (1866-1956) was a renowned British mathematician specialising in algebraic geometry. First published between 1922 and 1925, this six-volume work provides a detailed insight into the geometry which was developing at the time of publication. Volume 6 describes the birational geometric theory of surfaces.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1108017827
• ISBN 13: 9781108017824
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324