Many questions involving the theory of surfaces, such as the classification of quartic surfaces, the description of moduli spaces for abelian surfaces, and the automorphism group of a Kummer surface, are touched upon in this volume.

Excerpt from Quartic Surfaces: With Singular Points The purpose of the present treatise is to give a brief account of the leading properties, at present known, of quartic surfaces which possess nodes or nodal curves. A surface which would naturally take a prominent position in such a book is the Kummer surface, together with its special forms, the tetrahedroid and the wave surface, but the admirable work written by the late R. W. H. T. Hudson, entitled Kummer's Quartic Surface, renders unnecessary the inclusion of this subject. Ruled quartic surfaces have also been omitted. For the convenience of readers, a brief summary of all the leading results discussed in this book has been prefixed in the form of an Introduction. I have to express my great obligation to Prof. H. F. Baker, Sc.D., F.R.S., who has given much encouragement and valuable criticism. Finally I feel greatly indebted to the staff of the University Press for the way in which the printing has been carried out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.