Algebra

Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Editors

S. Axler K.A. Ribet

Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Abbott: Understanding Analysis. Anglin: Mathematics: A Concise History and Philosophy. Readings in Mathematics. Anglin/Lambek: The Heritage of Thales. Readings in Mathematics. Apostol: Introduction to Analytic Number Theory. Second edition. Armstrong: Basic Topology. Armstrong: Groups andSymmetry. Axler: Linear Algebra Done Right. Second edition. Beardon: Limits: A New Approach to Real Analysis. Bak/Newman: Complex Analysis. Second edition. Banchoff/Wermer: Linear Algebra Through Geometry. Second edition. Berberian: A First Course in Real Analysis. Bix: Conics and Cubics: A Concrete Introduction to Algebraic Curves. Brèmaud: An Introduction to Probabilistic Modeling. Bressoud:Factorization and Primality Testing. Bressoud: Second Year Calculus. Readings in Mathematics. Brickman: Mathematical Introduction to Linear Programming and Game Theory. Browder: Mathematical Analysis: An Introduction. Buchmann: Introduction to Cryptography. Second Edition. Buskes/van Rooij: Topological Spaces: From Distance to Neighborhood. Callahan: The Geometry of Spacetime: An Introduction toSpecial and General Relavitity. Carter/van Brunt: The Lebesgue– Stieltjes Integral: A Practical Introduction. Cederberg: A Course in Modern Geometries. Second edition. Chambert-Loir: A Field Guide to Algebra Childs: A Concrete Introduction to Higher Algebra. Second edition. Chung/AitSahlia: Elementary Probability Theory: With Stochastic Processes and an Introduction to Mathematical Finance. Fourthedition. Cox/Little/O’Shea: Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms. Second edition. Croom: Basic Concepts of Algebraic Topology. Cull/Flahive/Robson: Difference Equations. From Rabbits to Chaos Curtis: Linear Algebra: An Introductory Approach. Fourth edition. Daepp/Gorkin: Reading, Writing, and Proving: A Closer Look at Mathematics. Devlin: The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory. Secondedition. Dixmier: General Topology. Driver: Why Math? Ebbinghaus/Flum/Thomas: Mathematical Logic. Second edition. Edgar: Measure, Topology, and Fractal Geometry. Elaydi: An Introduction to Difference Equations. Third edition. Erdõs/Surányi: Topics in the Theory of Numbers. Estep: Practical Analysis on One Variable. Exner: An Accompaniment to Higher Mathematics. Exner: Inside Calculus.Fine/Rosenberger: The Fundamental Theory of Algebra. Fischer: Intermediate Real Analysis. Flanigan/Kazdan: Calculus Two: Linear and Nonlinear Functions. Second edition. Fleming: Functions of Several Variables. Second edition. Foulds: Combinatorial Optimization for Undergraduates. Foulds: Optimization Techniques: An Introduction. Franklin: Methods of Mathematical Economics. Frazier: An Introduction to WaveletsThrough Linear Algebra. Gamelin: Complex Analysis. Ghorpade/Limaye: A Course in Calculus and Real Analysis Gordon: Discrete Probability. Hairer/Wanner: Analysis by Its History. Readings in Mathematics. Halmos: Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces. Second edition. Halmos: Naive Set Theory. Hämmerlin/Hoffmann: Numerical Mathematics. Readings in Mathematics. Harris/Hirst/Mossinghoff: Combinatorics andGraph Theory. Hartshorne: Geometry: Euclid and Beyond. Hijab: Introduction to Calculus and Classical Analysis. Hilton/Holton/Pedersen: Mathematical Reflections: In a Room with Many Mirrors. Hilton/Holton/Pedersen: Mathematical Vistas: From a Room with Many Windows. Iooss/Joseph: Elementary Stability and Bifurcation Theory. Second Edition. (continued after index)

Robert Bix

Conics and Cubics
AConcrete Introduction to Algebraic Curves
Second Edition

With 151 Illustrations

Robert Bix Department of Mathematics The University of Michigan–Flint Flint, MI 48502 bobbix@umflint.edu

Editorial Board S. Axler Mathematics Department San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 USA axler@sfsu.edu

K.A. Ribet Mathematics Department University of California at Berkeley...