Principles of Geometry

Volume 1 , Foundations 
H. F. Baker 

Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics

Print Publication Year: 2010
Print ISBN: 9781108017770

Online Publication Date: July 2011
Online ISBN: 9780511718267

Book DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511718267

 

Henry Frederick Baker (1866–1956) was a renowned British mathematician specialising in algebraic geometry.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1898 and appointed the Lowndean Professor of Astronomy
and Geometry in the University of Cambridge in 1914. First published between 1922 and 1925, the six-volume
Principles of Geometry was a synthesis of Baker's lecture series on geometry and was the first British work
on geometry to use axiomatic methods without the use of co-ordinates. The first four volumes describe the
projective geometry of space of between two and five dimensions, with the last two volumes reflecting Baker's
later research interests in the birational theory of surfaces. The work as a whole provides a detailed insight
into the geometry which was developing at the time of publication.

This, the first volume, describes the foundations of projective geometry.

Principles of Geometry

Volume 2 , Plane Geometry 
H. F. Baker 

Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics

Print Publication Year: 2010
Print ISBN: 9781108017787

Online Publication Date: September 2011
Online ISBN: 9780511718274

Book DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511718274

This, the second volume, describes the principal configurations of space of two dimensions.

Principles of Geometry

Volume 3 , Solid Geometry 
H. F. Baker 

Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics

Print Publication Year: 2010
Print ISBN: 9781108017794

Online Publication Date: July 2011
Online ISBN: 9780511718281

Book DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511718281

This, the third volume, describes the principal configurations of space of three dimensions.

Principles of Geometry

Volume 4 , Higher Geometry 
H. F. Baker 

Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics

Print Publication Year: 2010
Print ISBN: 9781108017800

Online Publication Date: September 2011
Online ISBN: 9780511718298

Book DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511718298 

This, the fourth volume, describes the principal configurations of space of four and five dimensions.

Principles of Geometry

Volume 5 , Analytical Principles of the Theory of Curves 
H. F. Baker 

Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics

Print Publication Year: 2010
Print ISBN: 9781108017817

Online Publication Date: July 2011
Online ISBN: 9780511718304

Book DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511718304

This, the fifth volume, describes the birational geometry of curves.

Principles of Geometry

Volume 6 , Introduction to the Theory of Algebraic Surfaces and Higher Loci 
H. F. Baker 

Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics

Print Publication Year: 2010
Print ISBN: 9781108017824

Online Publication Date: September 2011
Online ISBN: 9780511718311

Book DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511718311

This, the sixth and final volume, describes the birational geometric theory of surfaces.