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PLANE AND SOLID GEOMETRY

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GEOMETRY

BY

ARTHUR SCHULTZE, PH.D.

FORMERLY ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, NEW YORK
UNIVERSITY, AND HEAD OF THE MATHEMATICAL DEPART-
MENT, HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE, NEW YORK CITY

AND

FRANK L. SEVENOAK

FORMERLY PRINCIPAL OF THE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

REVISED BY

ELMER SCHUYLER

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
BAY RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1925

All rights reserved

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

COPYRIGHT, 1901, 1913, 1925,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1925.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing Co. -Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

24-43

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

It is generally conceded that the final aim of mathematical teaching should be not only the acquisition of practical knowledge but that training of the student's mind which gives a distinct gain in mental power. In recognition of this principle nearly all college entrance examinations in geometry require some original work, and most textbooks devote considerable space to exercises. Comparatively little, however, has been done to introduce the student systematically to original geometrical work. No teacher of physics or chemistry would ask a student to discover a law without so guiding his work as to enable him to reach the desired result; many textbooks and teachers expect the pupil to invent geometrical proofs and to solve problems, entirely new to him, without offering any assistance further than a knowledge of the wellestablished theorems of all textbooks. Some writers give a description of the analysis of propositions, which is entirely logical and of great advantage to a person of some mathematical knowledge, but which is usually too abstract to be of any practical value to the beginner. In this book the attempt is made to introduce the student systematically to the solution of geometrical exercises. In the beginning the exercises given in a certain group are of similar kind and related to the preceding proposition; later some general principles are developed which are of fundamental importance for original work, as, for example, the method of proving the equality of lines by means of equal triangles; the method of proving the proportionality of lines by means of similar triangles, etc.; and

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