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A Syllabus For A Course In Analytical Projective Geometry, Herbert Richard Warne Jan 1954

A Syllabus For A Course In Analytical Projective Geometry, Herbert Richard Warne

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Projective geometry: a boundless domain of countless fields where reals and imaginaries, finites and infinities, enter on equal terms, where the spirit delights in the artistic balance and symmeric interplay of a kind of conceptual and logical counterpoint, - an enchanted realm where thought is double and flows throughout in parallel stream.


Experimental And Observational Geometry, Albert D. Field Jan 1928

Experimental And Observational Geometry, Albert D. Field

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Geometry has the distinction of being one of the oldest subjects given in the high-school.

Its subject-matter was formulated and organized by the Greeks into a fine system of thought before the time of Christ. Since leaving the hands of the Greeks, geometry has received only a few minor changes, and these largely in recent years.

Heretofore, the study of geometry has been made almost entirely dependent upon memory and reasoning. Geometricians have been slow in adopting the laboratory and observational methods.

This thesis has been written to encourage the student in his work of observing geometrical forms, and in …