The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: George Bruce Halsted

• George Bruce Halsted by J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson [University of Saint Andrews]
• Biography: Dr. George Bruce Halsted by Leonard E. Dickson [American Mathematical Monthly 1, 337 (1894)]
• George Bruce Halsted by Cristoforo Alasia de Quisada [1903] English translation: George Bruce Halsted
• George Bruce Halsted by H. Y. Benedict [Alcalde 10, 1357 (1922)]
• George Bruce Halsted by Florian Cajori [American Mathematical Monthly 29, 338 (1922)]

• WORKS:
  • A Guide to the George Bruce Halsted Papers [Briscoe Center for American History, UT Austin]
  • The New Ideas About Space by George Bruce Halsted [Popular Science 11, 364 (1877)]
  • The Elements of Geometry by George Bruce Halsted [London: Macmillan, 1886]
  • Metrical Geometry: An Elementary Treatise on Mensuration by George Bruce Halsted [Boston: Ginn, 1890]
  • Elementary Synthetic Geometry by George Bruce Halsted [New York: Wiley, 1896]
  • Rational Geometry: A Text-Book for the Science of Space Based on Hilbert's Foundations by George Bruce Halsted [New York: Wiley, 1904]
    • Reviews of Rational Geometry edited by George Bruce Halsted [n.d.] Not surprisingly, they all tend to be favourable ones.
  • Synthetic Projective Geometry by George Bruce Halsted [New York: Wiley, 1906] "Man, imprisoned in a little body with short-arm hands instead of wings, created for his guidance a mole geometry, a tactile space, codified by Euclid ... Yet man is no mole."
  • On the Foundation and Technic of Arithmetic by George Bruce Halsted [Chicago: Open Court, 1912]

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