Projective Geometry, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

The present volume is an ,ttempt to carry out the program outlined in the preface to Volume I. Unfortunately, Professor Young was obliged by the pressure of other duties to cease his collaboration at an early stage of the composition of this volume. Much of the work on the first chapters had already been done when this happened, but the form of exposition has been changed so much since then that although Professor Young deserves credit for constructive work, he cannot fairly be held responsible for mistakes or oversights. Professor Young has kindly read the proof sheets of this volume, as have alsoP rofessors A. B. Coble and A. A. Bennett. Most of the drawings were made by Dr. J. W. A lexander. I offer my thanks to all of these gentlemen and also toM essrs. Ginn and Company, who have shown their usual courtesy and efficiency while converting the manuscript into a book. The second volume has been arranged so that one may pass on a first reading from the end of Chapter VII, Volume I, to the beginning of Volume IJ. The later chapters of Volume I may well be read in connection with the part of Volume II from Chapter Vonward. I shall pass by the opportimity to discuss any of the pedagogical questions which have been raised in connection with the first volume and which may easU ybe foreseen for the second. It is to be expected that there will continue to be a general agreement among those who have not made the experiment, that an abstract method of treatment of geometry is unsuited to beginning students. In this book, however, we are committed to the abstract point of view.
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