axis of, 355 Newton's method of, 2'3 Transou'. theory of, 355 Areal co-ordinates, relation radius of, 356 with Cartesian co-ordinates 1 centre of, 356 angle of, Ail'gand's diagram 331 366 Asymptotes Aberrancy curve 368, 360 circular, 244 Absolute 8 determination of, 239 Acuode 57, 325 special methods of finding 240"' Adjoint-adjoiut cnnes, 44, 282; Asymptotic curves 242 283,380 circle ~ Affinity, linear ... 251 Algebraic curves, notion of 21 Autotomio curves '9 Auxiliary conic .. , 19 Analysis of higher singnlarities 326 Axis of projection 12: Analytical treatment of " of perspective 15 Quadrio Inversion 269 Basis curve of reaidua-tdon 37, 44 Analytical Triangle 227 Base conic of Quadric Inver- properties of, 229 sion 258 use of, in three variables 232 Bicircular Quartic 280 Anautotomic curves 49 Biflecnode 7I Angle made by tangents with Bipartite curves ... 299 any line 222 Birational Transformation 249 'between ourves unaltered Bitangents 73, ll8 by circular inversion. ... 18 of unicnrsal curves: 2'96 Anticaustio ]57 Bitaugential ourve 183 Antipoints 226 Booth 4t
Applioation of Quadric Inver- . Branches with higher singn-
lion 267 larities 287.- 382 GENERAL INDEX
Brill-Nother's theorem on Circular cubic 269
residuation 43 lines ~ Cartesian equation of pedal ... 168 inversion 268 Oval 166 asymptotes 243 curves, foci of, 225 Cardioid 180 Circular points at iufiuity 7 Cauchy 337 co-ordinates of, 10 Caustics 165 properties of, 10 classes of, 156 Cissoid 154,208 by reflection of a circle ... 158 Class of R. curve 101,319 st. line 158 Collineation 251 equation of, ... 159 treated !\,eometrically 252 tangential equation of, ... 163 Common elements of two bitangents of, 161 intersection with the re- correspondences 314 fleeting circle 162 Complex singularities 70,321 singulariteis on 163 Conchoid 208 by refraction of a. line 163 Conjuga.te point... 57, 51, 143 " circle ... 166 Confocal curves ... 21f:i Cayley-Brill's correspondence Conics with four-pointic formnla 3\7 contact 354 Cayley on intersections of cnrves 34 Constituents of singularities 351 Cayley ••n )(\7,108, 121, 170 Co-ordinates of a net of ourves 369 Cartesian as a special class of, 122, 123 system of homoge- order of, neODS, 3 121 characteristics of, 193 of circular points 10 in terms of elliptic func- Centre of a curve ... 88,90 tions 300 aberrancy 356 •• mean distances 87 Oo-reaidual 37 Characteristics of curves 18\ Oorrespondence, theory of, ... 307 of a system of of pts. on a curve 307 curves 372 analytical discussion of ... 3ag
Chasles on intersection of Correspondence Index 313
cubics 31 Corresponding Points 108 definition of centre 90 Cote's Theorem on harmonic eorr.~pondence 123 formula... mean 86 189,312,318 Covariant curves 107 Circuit of unioursal curves... 298 of ternary forms 370 GENERAL INDEX 38a
Cramer's paradox 29 Degenerate curves 25
analysis 245,271 Derived curves ... 135, 207 transformation 328 Diametral carves 87 Cremona Transformation 250, Discriminant 56, 141, 151 274, 286, 327 Discriminantal Index 337, 338 Double cusps 323, 324 Cremons conditions 272,274 Critic centres of cn bics 362 Double points 48, 53, 81, 93, 130 Crunode 75 couditions for, 64 species of, 56 Curves, algebraic, notiou of, 21 limit to the number of,... 62 approximate forms of, 227 transcendental, 2l discrimination of inflex-
proper and degenerate ... 23,25 ions from, ... 130
intersections of, 26 Double focus .211
triangular symmetric, 84. 298 I Doubly periodio fnnction 302 confocal 216 Double tangent ... 73 foci of, 209 of reciprocal ourves 143, 186 centre of, 88 Dualistic Transformation 253, 254 singular points ou, 47 Duality, principle of, 142 with zero deficiency 67, 287 with unit defioiency 299 Effects of inversion on with same deficiency si nzu 1arities ... 265 189 of closest contact 352 Effects of inversion on a which touch a given curve 363 cune 266 particular cases of, 264 Elliptic Functions, co-ordi- Curvilinear asymptotes 244- nates in terms of, 300 Cusp 57,58 143 Envelopes 145, 147, 149 species of, 322 Equivalent singnlarities 325
ciasoid 164 Deficiency of curves 63. 186 normal of, 154- Deficiency nnaltered by characteristics of, 197 Cremona Transformation 275 Expansion of a function 336 Deficiency of transformed I in line co-ordinates 343 curve 280 Extension of Pllicker's For- Deficiency, curves with the mules 350 same 188 Extension of residual theorem '" Deficieucies, point and Iiue 187 First Polar 100, 103, 112 384 Flfonode 7Q Inversion, theory of 1'1 Foci of curTes 206 oiroul6r, 268 singular, 211,1112 quadrio, 257 dekrmination of, 217 effects on singnla.rities of, 265 triple., 213 " a ourve of, ... 266 oo.ordinates of, 1114 an"lytioal treatment of, ..• 259 " nlp,w~keo.y w., 220 In~rsection8 of ourves 26 of inverse curves. 223 at singular points 60 of circular curves 225 at higher sing. points 339 reeiproeal, 'W•.1'.t. 224 Intersections with adjoints 284 Folium of Descartes 69 with a pencil of adjoints 284 Funotions, representation of, 22 of oanstics with reflecting expansion of, .. 336 circle 162 Gauss plane 331 Irreducible function 23 G~.t:io~ne 32,157 curve 326
Gell"l'1!.tI9nof a curve ... 365 Isoleted point ... 57
Iacptic looi 173 R~monic mean . 87 oh~oteristics. of, 207 polar . 128 Isotropic lines 9, 10, 11 H'8IIIiian 107, 109, 114, 123, 100 cha.ra.o~ristica of 191 Jacobian of three ourves 366 of a net of curves ... 369 of a net of curves ... 368 mnltiple points on, ... 367 Higher singularities 321 Katacaustic 157, 158 Hurwitz Correspondence 319 Keratoid ousp ... 322 Inflexion, points of 49, 53, 74; 98, Line at infinity 2 ISO, 181 properties of, 11 number of; 129, 133, 134, 320 inverse of, 263 Illfl!!.xionalta.ngent 49, 143, 264 Linear transformation 250 lqfuUte branches 2S6 affinity 251 b~ch 381, 34iI. Invariants of ternary forms· 370 Line co-ordinates 3 Inverse ourves 170 expansion of a funotion proper, 262 in, foci of, 223 LimaQon 180, 248, 969 l¥~se of a right line 261 Maolaurin's theorem· 91' Mixed polars 88 InYerse of·ijl61ine a~5nflility of l!piIIli.l:pointa Mongian .. , 859. !IIllltiple points 511 liS, 1In, 145 Pascal's theorem on tangents '13 hetaffoli ... 32, 33
Net of curves 3eB
Pedal curves 167 of first polars equation ot, Ills 369 characteristics of, 195 as JacobiaD 369 Newton's approximation 234 Pencil of on-ics Ml parallelcgram 227 ooniea, appli08.ion of the principles of Nodal indea 351 characteristics to 375 Node 6'1, 128, 143 NlIther's transformation 271 Perspective, figures in, 14, Number of points determining centre of, Iii a ourve 24 axis of, 15 of inflexious 129 analytical treatment of, 15 Order, of a oycle 332 Pllicker'iI equations 18i a super1inear branch 331 Point and line deficiencies... 187 regarded 8S an envelope, :143 Polar curves 19, 78 of a CUrve 24 of origin 91 Orthoptio looi 175 conic ... 112 equation of, 176 ot point of inflexlon 82 derived from polar reciprocal curves 135, 137 equation 179 of a Btiperlinear braBeh ~47 characteristics of, 202 Poles and polus, theory ot 77 O8culating cirole. invel'B6of 269 w.r.t. a triangle 99 •• curves 352, 353 Pole aad polar conics _ 256 Poles of a tight iilie 95, 98 O~I-inflexion 323 Polara, mixed 83 O¥!d of Descartes 166 li6int equation deri:Ved from P•••.bolio branohes ~ tangential 140 Parallel CllrVes 111 Principle of duality 142 cbrdeterhltici of, 20i Principal equivalence 351 Paradoil: of Cramer 29" Projection, theory of, 11 Pan.metric 01•• 1i 372 axis of, 12 order of·•. family vertex of, 12 of ourves 379 analytical aspect of, 18 represeutation 287 Quaidrio inversion 281 in nne oo-ordinates 200 Q8i ratioli'" triiJdfor~ hatial branoh 333 mation 2&9' I
886 GENERAL INDEX
Quadric Inversion Singular focus 211
analytical treatment of, 259 Singular points on curves 47 applications of, 267 at infinity .71 Quadrio:transformation 274 on unioursal curves 290 special 269 Singularities, equivalent 325 Quartic, trinodal 267 reciprocal 74 tricuspidal 268 higher, on curves 321 Kadius of curvature 0 aber- analysis of, 326 rancy curve 360 method of expansion of aberrancy 356 applied to 384 Ramphoid cusp 322 Rational ourves 65 Skew reciprocatiou 253
special olass of, 298 Speoiesof cusps 322
transformation lU9 of double points 56 Reoiprocal polars 19, 135, 144 Spimode 57 in homogeneous co- St. Laurent's equation of ordinates 137 caustic 159 w.r.t. focus 224 Stationary tangent 49, 74, 170 singularities 74 Bteinerian 107, 110, 190 Beeiprocation, theory of, 19, 135 characteristics of, 192 skew, 253 class of, 116 order of, 119 Reduotion of the order of inflexional tangent of, 119 transformed curve 279 with a multiple pt. 281 Bteinerian of a net of curves 269 Sucoessive transformations 328 Relation bet. line and point 4 oharacteristics of a Superlinear branches 333, 334 family 373 order of, 331 class of, 332 Residuation, theory of, 36 ReBidual 37 Tacnodal branch 35i theorem 43 Tacnode 144, 247, 323, 326 extension of, 44 Tact-invariant of two curves 3M Beaiduation Tangential co-ordinates 4. addition theorem on, 38 equation derived from subtraction 39 point equation 138 multiplication 40 equation of caustic 160 Riemann transformation 276, 277 Tangents to a cubic 85 Beco,dary caustic 157, 165 Traoing of curves 227, 245 Semicubioalparabola 152, 235 in Cartesian 245 Sextactic points 320 " homogeneous •.• 245· GENERAL IND~X 387
Transcendental functions 23 Triple point 51,82, 12/\,161, 133
curves 21 classification of, 324 Transformation, rational 249 Undulation, points of 59 birational 249 Unicursal curves 65,69.287 linear 250 order of, 289 dualistic 253 class of, 290 special quadric 269 singular pts. on, 292 byadjoints 285 bitangents of, 295 successive 328 circuit of, 298 Noetber's 271 Riemann's 276 Unipartite curves 298 Transon's cheory of not necessarily uni- aberrancy 355 cursal 299
Triangular symmetric curves United points 310
84, 298 Vanishing line 12 Vertex of projection 12 Tricuspidal quartic 268 Trilinear co-ordinates 1 Weierstrass's elliptic funo- equation 6, 138 tions 302 of caustics 160 Witch 248 Trinodal quartic 70, 267 Zero residual 37