Analytic Geometry
by Gordon Fuller, Dalton Tarwater · Gordon Fuller, Dalton Tarwater
Classic college textbook covering lines and circles, conic sections, simplification by translation and rotation of axes, polar and parametric equations, and three-dimensional coordinates with vectors, planes, and surfaces. Readers learn to move fluently between algebraic equations and their geometric curves.
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