An introduction to mathematics, by A. N. Whitehead.

132 INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS and difficult the investigation of the properties of these curves must have been to the Greek geometers. The curves are plane curves, and yet their investigation involves - / " /! a-.u /' A r >, Fig. 15. the drawing in perspective of a solid figure. Thus in the diagram given above we have practically drawn no subsidiary lines and yet the figure is sufficiently complicated. The

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An introduction to mathematics, by A. N. Whitehead.
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Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.
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New York,: H. Holt and company; [etc., etc.,
c1911]
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