| Tms book deals with the geometry of the triangle and the circle, as developed extensively in the nineteenth century by British and Continental writers. This geometry, based entirely on the elementary plane geometry of Euclid or its modern equivalent, is rapidly coming to its due recognition as excellent material for college courses. Perhaps in no other field is there so rich a harvest of geometric truth so directly accessible to the student, with as little preliminary investment of energy in the development of method and technique. The student who is familiar with high school mathematics and with the language of trigonometry is well qualified to reap the full benefit of a course in this subject. For this reason, such a course makes a strong appeal to the teacher or the prospective teacher of mathematics in the secondary school; to the general student who appreciates mathematics, especially geometry, but is not attracted by the arduous algebraic difficulties of analytic geometry; and to the mathematician who finds frequent applications of this modern elementary geometry in other fields of mathematics. Such relationships are occasionally suggested or implied in the book; so that the reader who is acquainted with higher geometry will frequently recognize familiar theorems more or less effectually disguised. |
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