Table of Contents

Foreword V. Iskovskikh and M. Reid; Part I. Cremona plane transformations: 1. Outline of the general plane theory; 2. Clebsch's theorem; 3. The quadratic plane transformation; 4. Composition and resolution of plane transformations; 5. Transformations in one plane; 6. Special plane transformations; 7. Resolution of singularities of plane curves; 8. Noether's theorem; Part II. Cremona space transformations: 9. Outline of the general space theory; 10. The quadro-quadric transformation; 11. Postulation and equivalence; 12. Contact conditions; 13. The principal system; 14. Special space transformations; 15. A cubo-quartic transformation; 16. Resolution of singularities of surfaces; 17. History and literature; Bibliography; Tables; Index.

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Reissue of classic work on Cremona transformations, with new foreword.