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Some Suggestions in Mathematical Terminology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

R. F. Muirhead
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1. To designate the line which bisects at right angles the join of two points A, B, the term axis of A, B is proposed. Reasons:—

(1) brevity; (2) avoidance of the suggestion that the line joining AB is necessary in constructing it (important in teaching Geometrical Drawing); (3) two points, like any other pair of circles, have a radical axis which is the line in question.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 13 , February 1894 , pp. 143
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1894