Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I ALGEBRAIC CORRESPONDENCE
- CHAPTER II SCHUBERT'S CALCULUS. MULTIPLE CORRESPONDENCE
- CHAPTER III TRANSFORMATIONS AND INVOLUTIONS FOR THE MOST PART IN A PLANE
- CHAPTER IV PRELIMINARY PROPERTIES OF SURFACES IN THREE AND FOUR DIMENSIONS
- CHAPTER V INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF THE INVARIANTS OF BIRATIONAL TRANSFORMATION OF A SURFACE, PARTICULARLY IN SPACE OF THREE DIMENSIONS
- CHAPTER VI SURFACES AND PRIMALS IN FOUR DIMENSIONS. FORMULAE FOR INTERSECTIONS
- CHAPTER VII ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES AND PARTICULAR THEOREMS
- INDEX
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I ALGEBRAIC CORRESPONDENCE
- CHAPTER II SCHUBERT'S CALCULUS. MULTIPLE CORRESPONDENCE
- CHAPTER III TRANSFORMATIONS AND INVOLUTIONS FOR THE MOST PART IN A PLANE
- CHAPTER IV PRELIMINARY PROPERTIES OF SURFACES IN THREE AND FOUR DIMENSIONS
- CHAPTER V INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF THE INVARIANTS OF BIRATIONAL TRANSFORMATION OF A SURFACE, PARTICULARLY IN SPACE OF THREE DIMENSIONS
- CHAPTER VI SURFACES AND PRIMALS IN FOUR DIMENSIONS. FORMULAE FOR INTERSECTIONS
- CHAPTER VII ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES AND PARTICULAR THEOREMS
- INDEX
Summary
THE origin and final purpose of this volume, and the preceding, have been stated in the preface to the latter. It may be useful to describe in outline the contents of the present volume. The first chapter deals with the theory of correspondence, mainly of points on one or two curves, with inclusion of the treatment by transcendental methods, and the connection with the theory of defective integrals. The second chapter attempts an exposition of Schubert's remarkable ideas, which are as interesting logically as geometrically, and of the extension of the theory of correspondence to aggregates of any dimension. The third chapter is in part a reminder of theorems which belong to plane geometry, and in part a sketch of general theorems for rational surfaces. In the fourth chapter the elementary preliminary properties of surfaces in ordinary space, and in space of four dimensions, are dealt with. Chapter V is that which is concerned with the most interesting and the most novel ideas of the volume. For this reason it is written in a tentative introductory manner, and will best have served its purpose if it leaves the reader convinced of the importance of the theory involved, and with a desire to follow it further. The next chapter develops in detail the theory of the intersections of manifolds in space of four dimensions. The last chapter collects together various particular theorems, and some easy applications of foregoing theory.
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- Principles of Geometry , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010