Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction to the theory of quadric surfaces; 2. Relations with a fixed conic. Spheres, confocal surfaces: quadrics through the intersection of two general quadrics; 3. Cubic curves in space. The intersection of two or more quadrics; 4. The general cubic surface: introductory theorems; Corrections for volumes 1 and 2; Index.

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A benchmark study of projective geometry and the birational theory of surfaces, first published between 1922 and 1925.