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V.—A Study of Trilinear Co-ordinates: being a Consecutive Series of Seventy-two Propositions in Transversals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Hugh Martin
Affiliation:
Free Greyfriars', Edinburgh

Extract

The following series of theorems is given as an illustration of the modern method of trilinear co-ordinates, having been wrought out after perusal of Mr Ferrar's very lucid and elegant treatise on that subject. The demonstrations present no difficulty, requiring nothing more complicated than the formation of determinants of two and three places. Accordingly, after exhibiting the method of proof in a few instances, I have merely given the enunciations of the remaining propositions. As the series of theorems advances the manipulation becomes, of course, a little more complicated; but the co-ordinates and co-efficients always appear in such symmetry as very greatly abbreviates the task, and guarantees its accuracy. Two, or perhaps three, of these seventy-two theorems are known mathematical truths; but that so many new consecutive propositions should be so easily found, and so easily proved, is a convincing evidence of the simplicity, fertility, and power of this new and beautiful method.

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Transactions
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1865

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References

page 40 note * By symmetry.