Henry Frederick Baker (1866 1956) was a renowned British
mathematician specialising in algebraic geometry. He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1898 and appointed the Lowndean
Professor of Astronomy and Geometry in the University of Cambridge
in 1914. First published between 1922 and 1925, the six-volume
Principles of Geometry was a synthesis of Baker's lecture series on
geometry and was the first British work on geometry to use
axiomatic methods without the use of co-ordinates. The first four
volumes describe the projective geometry of space of between two
and five dimensions, with the last two volumes reflecting Baker's
later research interests in the birational theory of surfaces. The
work as a whole provides a detailed insight into the geometry which
was developing at the time of publication. This, the sixth and
final volume, describes the birational geometric theory of
surfaces.
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