Introduction to Analytical Geometry

This book aims to give a pre-university level introduction to the use of coordinates and analytical methods in geometry.

A. Robson (Author)

9780521116190, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 16 July 2009

424 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.62 kg

First published in 1940, this book was written by the senior mathematical master at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, England. It was designed as a student textbook and the author aimed to give a pre-university level introduction to the use of coordinates and analytical methods in geometry. With only a basic knowledge of elementary calculus and rectangular Cartesian coordinates required, the book offers many exercises suitable for a beginner and detailed introductions to a large variety of methods and ideas.

Preface
1. Co-ordinates
2. Equations and Loci
3. The point and line
4. Duality and degeneracy
5. The circle
6. Parametric equations
7. The general algebraic curve
8. Abstract geometry
9. Conical projection
10. Cross-ratio
11. Harmonic section
12. The general conic
13. The parabola
14. The ellipse
15. The hyperbola
16. s = ks
Exercises
Answers
Index.

Subject Areas: Mathematics [PB]