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Excerpt from Analytic Geometry for Colleges, Universities, and Technical Schools This text-book is designed for Colleges, Universities, and Technical Schools. The aim of the author has been to prepare a work for beginners, and at the same time to make it sufficiently comprehensive for the requirements of the usual undergraduate course. For the methods of development of the various principles he has drawn largely upon his experience in the class-room. In the preparation of the work all authors, home and foreign, whose works were available, have been freely consulted. In the first few chapters elementary examples follow the discussion of each principle. In the subsequent chapters sets of examples appear at intervals throughout each chapter, and are so arranged as to partake both of the nature of a review and an extension of the preceding principles. At the end of each chapter general examples, involving a more extended application of the principles deduced, are placed for the benefit of those who may desire a higher course in the subject. The author takes pleasure in calling attention to a "Discussion of Surfaces," by A. L. Nelson, M.A., Professor of Mathematics in Washington and Lee University, which appears as the final chapter in this work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.