Projective Geometry

by Pierre Samuel

Book Overview

The purpose of this book is to revive some of the beautiful results obtained by various geometers of the 19th century, and to give its readers a taste of concrete algebraic geometry. A good deal of space is devoted to cross-ratios, conics, quadrics, and various interesting curves and surfaces. The fundamentals of projective geometry are efficiently dealt with by using a modest amount of linear algebra. An axiomatic characterization of projective planes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387967524
• ISBN13: 9780387967523
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"