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Continued from the back cover: "the book is well illustrated, and contains several hundred worked examples and exercises, making it suitable for adoption as a course text. From the familiar lines and conics of elementary geometry the reader proceeds to general curves in the real affine plane, with excursions to more general fields to illustrate applications, such as number theory. By adding points at infinity the affine plane is extended to the projective plane, yielding a natural setting for curves and providing a flood of illumination into the underlying geometry. A minimal amount of algebra leads to the famous theorem of Bézout, whilst the ideas of linear systems are unsed to discuss the classical group structures on the cubic."Chapters
