Author: HESSE, (L.) O.-
Title: Vorlesungen über analytische Geometrie des Raumes insbes. Oberflächen zweiter Ordnung. Bound w. Leçons sur les applications du calcul infinitésimal a la géométrie.
Description: Leipzig, Teubner, 1861. Contemp. half. clf., spine sl. rubb. and some discol. Fr. cover loose. (XV, 368 pp.). "One of the foremost writers on modern pure geometry, analytic geometry and determinants"(Smith I, p. 510).: Coolidge: "In a well written work on the geometry of space ... here we find an abridged notation, homogeneous point and plane coordinates, determinants, linear transformations, quadratic surfaces in point and plane coordinates, polar theory, all in the best modern form.': First edition of one of his chief works. Very good copy.

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