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It's the last months of the nineteenth century and twenty-two year old Euphemia Thorniwork, is out of step with the men's world she lives in. A mathematical research student at Oxford, looked on with suspicion by her her tutor, Professor Milton, she is forced to collaborate with fellow-student, Leo Lazarus, also under suspicion-for being Jewish. At home in London, life is under pressure-for months a toxic fog has engulfed the city each evening, bringing illness to many, including Euphemia's widowed mother. The fog has been accompanied by a wave of body-snatching and the body of Euphemia's...

Our main purpose in this book is to present an English translation of Desargues' Rough Draft of an Essay on the results of taking plane sections of a cone (1639), the pamphlet with which the modem study of projective geometry began. Despite its acknowledged importance in the history of mathematics, the work has never been translated before in its entirety, although short extracts have appeared in several source books. The problems of making Desargues' work accessible to modem mathematicians and historians of mathematics have led us to provide a fairly elaborate introduction, and to include...