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September 16, 2017 Subject:
Still Relevant
This book covers plane curves: cubics, quartics, etc. The book has wide coverage, although it is now quite old. But it is still a source for open problems.
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Papers are still being published that look at things mentioned in these pages. There are more complete works that look at particular aspects covered in these pages. Coolidge, A Treatise on Higher Plane Curves, is along the same lines, but at a slightly higher level, introducing concepts bypassed by Salmon. Emmy Noether's thesis is devoted to ternary quartic invariants, a topic first broached in detail in Salmon. Hilda P. Hudson, Cremona Transformations, takes that area well beyond what is covered in these pages. For treatment from a modern viewpoint, try Griffiths, Introduction to Algebraic Curves, or Walker, Algebraic Curves. However, Salmon is my favorite, having read it in 1965. I still read it from time to time.
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