The Axioms Of Descriptive Geometry
by Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1914
ISBN/ASIN: B007NYGORY
Number of pages: 96
Description:
In the present tract, after the statement of the axioms, the ideas considered are those concerning the association of Projective and Descriptive Geometry by means of ideal points, point to point correspondence, congruence, distance, and metrical geometry.
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