A History of Geometrical Methods By: Julian Lowell Coolidge Publisher: Dover Publications Print ISBN: 9780486495248, 0486495248 eText ISBN: 9780486158532, 0486158535 Pages: 480 Format: EPUB Available from $ 60.00 USD SKU 9780486158532 Full and authoritative, this history of the techniques for dealing with geometric questions begins with synthetic geometry and its origins in Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics; reviews the contributions of China, Japan, India, and Greece; and discusses the non-Euclidean geometries. Subsequent sections cover algebraic geometry, starting with the precursors and advancing to the great awakening with Descartes; and differential geometry, from the early work of Huygens and Newton to projective and absolute differential geometry. The author's emphasis on proofs and notations, his comparisons between older and newer methods, and his references to over 600 primary and secondary sources make this book an invaluable reference. 1940 edition. Download eBook Free: https://ouo.io/wxSY5g
