ADVANCED EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY (formerly titled: Modern Geometry) “AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THE GEOMETRY OF 1! ‘TRIANGLE AND THE CIR BY ROGER A. JOHNSON UNDER THE EDITORSHTP OF JouN Westey Youne DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. NEW YORK NEW YORK‘Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Limited, 10 Orange Street, ‘London, W.C. 2. ‘This new Dover edition, first published in 1960, isan unabridged and unaltered republica- tion of the first edition published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1920, Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Ine. 180 Varick Street New York 14, N.Y.EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION, ‘Twerx are fashions in mathematics as well as in clothes — ‘and in both domains they have a tendency to repeat them- selves. During the second half of the nineteenth century “Modern Geometry,” in the sense of the content of the pre- sent book, aroused much interest and was prosecuted vigor- ously by a considerable number both in England and on the continent of Burope. Many beautiful new theorems were proved, most of them by elementary methods. ‘Toward the end of the century this intorest waned somewhat, ‘The present. appears to exhibit # revival of this interest. ‘This is in large part due to the recognition of the value of this znew material as training for the prospective teacher of geom- etry in our secondary schools. Here is indeed a discipline which is a natural “sequel” to elementary geometry, a body of propositions which may be derived by methods similar to those used in the classical plane geometry and which has all the attraction of novelty and inherent beauty. Tt is not sur- prising, therefore, that an increasing number of eolleges and normal schools are introducing into their curricula eourses in this “Modern Geometry.” Ttis not only as. textbook in such courses, however, that the present book will bo a valuable addition to our mathe- matical literature. In view of the very modest, demands it ‘makes on the provious training of the student, it may be ex- pected to appeal to many teachers in secondary schools and colleges whose interest. and ambition lead them to seek to in- crease their knowledge and appreciation of geometry. More- over, many highly trained mathematicians will welcome it as iving them the opportunity to fill a not uncommon gap in