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020			_a9780511569340 (ebook)
020			_z9780521055857 (hardback)
020			_z9780521044448 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050		4	_aQA483 _b.L63 2007
082	0	4	_a516.352 _222
100	1		_aLockwood, E. H. _q(Edward Harrington), _eauthor.
245	1	2	_aA book of curves / _cby E.H. Lockwood.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2007.
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 198 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520			_aThis book opens up an important field of mathematics at an elementary level, one in which the element of aesthetic pleasure, both in the shapes of the curves and in their mathematical relationships, is dominant. This book describes methods of drawing plane curves, beginning with conic sections (parabola, ellipse and hyperbola), and going on to cycloidal curves, spirals, glissettes, pedal curves, strophoids and so on. In general, 'envelope methods' are used. There are twenty-five full-page plates and over ninety smaller diagrams in the text. The book can be used in schools, but will also be a reference for draughtsmen and mechanical engineers. As a text on advanced plane geometry it should appeal to pure mathematicians with an interest in geometry, and to students for whom Euclidean geometry is not a principal study.
650		0	_aCurves, Plane.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521055857
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511569340
999			_c521983 _d521981