NEW ANALYTIC GEOMETRY 



By PERCEY F. SMITH, Professor of Mathematics, Sheffield Scien- 

 tific School, Yale University, and ARTHUR SULLIVAN GALE, 

 Professor of Mathematics, University of Rochester 



izmo, cloth, 342 pages, illustrated, $1.50 



' I ^HE " New Analytic Geometry " aims to meet the present- 

 A day demand for a text which will provide adequate and 

 thorough preparation for the calculus and applied mathematics. 

 The subject matter which it presents differs in many important 

 respects from that included in the current textbooks on the 

 subject. Some distinctive features are the following: 



The simplicity and directness of the proofs. 



The numerous tables to assist in calculations. 



The large number of tested problems and the omission of answers 

 to these when any useful purpose is served. 



The attention given to curve plotting, including applications to the 

 graphical solution of transcendental equations, to sketching sine curves, 

 motion curves, and other transcendental curves used in engineering. 



A chapter on the setting up and graphical study of functions arising 

 from concrete problems. 



The concise treatment of the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola, and 

 the general equation of the second degree, and the description of the 

 importance of these curves in the arts. 



The expression of the simpler formulas in determinant form. 



The variety of locus problems and the use of parametric equations 

 in solving them and in curve plotting. 



The attention paid to the careful sketching of loci in space. 



A chapter on the derivation of empirical equations to fit observed 

 data. 



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