Geometry of Curves /

"Interest in the study of geometry is currently enjoying a resurgence-understandably so, as the study of curves was once the playground of some very great mathematicians. However, many of the subject's more exciting aspects require a somewhat advanced mathematics background. For the "...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rutter, J.W (Author)
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2000.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Chapman Hall/CRC Mathematics Series
Subjects:	Geometry Number Theory ARCHIVEnetBASE Geometry. Number theory. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

chapter Introduction
chapter 1 Lines, circles, and conies
chapter 2 Conies: general position
chapter 3 Some higher curves
chapter 4 Parameters, tangents, normal
chapter 5 Contact, inflexions, undulations
chapter 6 Cusps, non-regular points
chapter 7 Curvature
chapter 8 Curvature: applications
chapter 9 Circle of curvature
chapter 10 LimaQons
chapter 11 Evolutes
chapter 12 Parallels, involutes
chapter 13 Roulettes
chapter 14 Envelopes
chapter 15 Singular points of algebraic curves
chapter 16 Projective curves
chapter 17 Practical work
chapter 18 Drawn curves
chapter 19 Further reading.