[Math] Good book for Solid Analytical Geometry

Question

So my teacher uses this book, William H McCrea's Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions, but it's awfully hard and dry. I need something with more exercises and better explanations, but that covers the same topics (right now I specially need RP^3).

Thanks for any suggestions.

Answer 1

I have a copy of A. Adrian Albert Solid Analytic Geometry. Can't promise that it is what you want as I never worked through it (given it when young). It is somewhat of the theorem lemma school and is thin like a monograph. I do think it is pretty clear and has decent examples and questions. [So, not a big recc, but something you could try.]

One that shows up on the web (free on google books) is Plane and Solid Analytic Geometry by William Fogg Osgood, William Caspar Graustein:

https://books.google.com/books/about/Plane_and_Solid_Analytic_Geometry.html?id=Yo0LAAAAYAAJ

(Edit) Also my Schaum's Outline for College Algebra contains a section on solid analyt geometry. Pretty accessible. Schaum's rocks.

P.s. I looked at that McCrea: yeah...seems very dry. Topic should be more fun than that book would make it.