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Synopsis

Reprinted.

Item Description

4to. 10 x 7.5 inches. xi + [i] +198 + [1] pp. Bound in original grey cloth with black title label, gilt, and black block on front board. in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, with edge wear, including chips and missing section at head and tail of spine, which is sunned as are edges of inside flaps. Date stamp on front pastedown, but otherwise a very good copy with clean interior. Illustrated by tipped in black and white photographic frontispiece and by 127 text figures. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. A mathematical study of plane curves. BY Edward Harrington Lockwood, Senior Mathematics Master, Felstead School. Formerly Scholar of St. John's College Cambridge. Reprint of the first edition of 1961. This book opens up an important field of mathematics at an elementary level, one in which the element of aesthetic pleasure, both in the shapes of the curves and in their mathematical relationships, is dominant. This book describes methods of drawing plane curves, beginning with conic sections (parabola, ellipse and hyperbola), and going on to cycloidal curves, spirals, glissettes, pedal curves, etc. There are twenty-five full-page plates and over ninety smaller diagrams in the text. The book can be used in schools, but will also be a reference for draughtsmen and mechanical engineers. As a text on advanced plane geometry it should appeal to pure mathematicians with an interest in geometry, and to students for whom Euclidean geometry is not a principal study (summary shortened from blurb).