A treatise on plane co-ordinate geometry

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Page 267 - A circle which touches one side of a triangle and the other two sides produced, is called an escribed circle of the triangle.
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Page 314 - The design of this work has been to render the subject intelligible to beginners, and at the same time to afford the student the opportunity of obtaining all the information which he will require on this branch of Mathematics.
Page 98 - A point moves so that the sum of the squares of its distances from the points (0, 0), (1, 0) is constant.
Page 316 - The earlier sections of each chapter contain that kind of matter which has usually been thought suitable for the beginner, while the latter ones are devoted either to an account of recent discovery, or to the discussion of such deeper questions of principle as are likely to present themselves to the reflective student in connection with the methods and processes of his previous course.
Page 309 - PLANE CO-ORDINATE GEOMETRY, as applied to the Straight Line and the Conic Sections. With numerous Examples.
Page 316 - ... which can be altered only by the changes of entire units or integral multiples of units in the fundamental conditions of the problem ; the other concerning those chances which have respect to insensible gradations in the value of the element measured), the present tract has been drawn up.
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Page 319 - Works by the Rev. NM FERRERS, MA, Fellow and Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON TRILINEAR ' CO-ORDINATES, the Method of Reciprocal Polars, and the Theory of Projectors.
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