Quartic Surfaces with Singular Points
Quartic Surfaces with Singular Points
C. M. Jessop
March 2016
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Originally published in 1916, this book was written to provide readers with a concise account of the leading properties of quartic surfaces possessing nodes or nodal curves. A brief summary of the leading results discussed in the book is included in the form of an introduction. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in quartic surfaces, algebraic geometry and the history of mathematics.
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March 2016Paperback
9781316601815
236 pages
216 × 139 × 15 mm
0.33kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Quartic surfaces with isolated singular points
- 2. Desmic surfaces
- 3. Quartic surfaces with a double conic
- 4. Quartic surfaces with a nodal conic and additional nodes
- 5. The cyclide
- 6. Surfaces with a double line: Plücker's surface
- 7. Quartic surfaces with an infinite number of conics: Steiner's surface: the quartic monoid
- 8. The general theory of rational quartic surfaces
- 9. Determinant surfaces
- Index of subjects
- Index of authors.
