Metrical geometry! An elementary treatise on mensuration

Halsted George Bruce 1853-

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..,,-^r::/*METRICAL GEOMETRY.
AN
ELEMENTARY TREATISE
ON
MENSURATION
v
BY
GEORGE BRUCE HALSTED
AND EX-FELLOW OF PRINCETON ANDA.B., A.M., COLLEGE; PH.D.
OF JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OFEX-FELLOW
;
PURE AND APPLIED UNIVERSITYMATHEMATICS,
OF TEXAS.
FOURTH EDITION.
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY GINN & COMPANY.
1890.CJ>
Entered to Act of in the 1881,according Congress, year by
GEORGE BRUCE HALSTED,
in the office of the Librarian of atCongress, Washington.
TYPOGRAPHY BY J. S. CUSHING & U.S.A.Co., BOSTON,
PRESSWORK BY GINN & U.S.A.Co., BOSTON,INSCRIBED TO
J. J. SYLVESTER,
L. and Cor. Mem. Institute Mem.A.M., Cam.; F.R.S., E.; France;of
Acad. Sciences in St. Peters-Berlin, Milan,of Gottingen, Naples,
etc. U. E.Univ.; LL.D., Dublin, ; D.C.L.,burg, of of
Son. Fellow St. John's Col., Cam.;Oxford; of
in theSavilian GeometryProfessor of
University of Oxford;
IN TOKEN OF THE INESTIMABLE DERIVED FROMBENEFITS
TWO YEARS' WORK WITH HIM,
BY THE AUTHOR.PREFACE.
of on thebook is the outcome work subjectprimarily
THIS classes.while it toteaching large
it is is new.A considerable believed,part, entirely
mention must be made of the book's indebtedness to Dr.
Special
ofJ. W. a classmate with me at Columbia School alsoMines;DAVIS,
theto Prof. G. A. who has looked overWENTWORTH, kindly proofs.
if be found this is due toBut the book theaccurate,especially pains-
care of friend H. B. Fellow of Princeton.FINE,taking my
corrections or to the work will be thank-Any suggestions relating
received.fully
GEORGE BRUCE HALSTED.
NEWPRINCETON, JERSEY,
1881.12,May
NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
WHATEVER have been continued usechanges suggested during
with successive classes in Princeton and Science School,College
are embodied in the which we have striven toedition,present
render free from errors.
1883.October,PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION.
be to mention that this book has had the honormay proper
ITof drawn WILLIAM THOMSON for hisProf.being upon by
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article Mensuration in the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. He has taken thefrom otherit, novelties,among
the and the treatment of solid associ-steregon, steradian, angles
ated with them. But he missed the of the and thebook,gem
lacks the finest the most ruleformula, surprisingEncyclopaedia
of the whole the new or two-term formula,subject, prismoidal
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