Présentation de l'éditeur
During recent years the study of solid geometry has occupied a somewhat less commanding position in the mathematical curriculum than formerly. Important and essential as its subject matter is admitted to be, it has been little more than an appendage to plane geometry, both in the methods of its presentation and in its scientific results. The authors of this text feel that the subject is much more vital than such a tendency would indicate. Not only are the bare truths gained from a study of solid geometry essential to the student of science, but through its medium a multitude of mathematical ideas can be presented and elucidated in a natural and convincing manner. In fact, no subject of elementary mathematics can be compared to solid geometry as a climax and capstone of mathematical study for the student who pursues the subject no farther. It not only utilizes and applies much that he has learned in other courses, but serves as a point of vantage from which may be gained many glimpses of scientific fields which he is not to enter. In this text the authors have presented the subject in such form that a minimal course as prescribed by the colleges and the various examining boards may be covered. At the same time it affords at every turn a richness of suggestion and development for those who have the time and the inclination to do more than that minimum.
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