THE book is to be welcomed as meeting the need for a single text-book dealing with all branches of geometry required in a two-years' course for a Higher School Certificate. The first seven chapters ...

Where waves once moved, now lie fields, forests, and towns — a geometry of straight lines and quiet order drawn across what was once open water. The land feels different from the rest of the country.

RENÉ DESCARTES (1596–1650), philosopher and mathematician, is of course universally, regarded as the inventor of the method of co-ordinates in geometry; hence the common name for them, Cartesian ...