An Easy Introduction to the Mathematics: In which the Theory and Practice are Laid Down and Familiarly Explained ... A Complete and Easy System of Elementary Instruction in the Leading Branches of the Mathematics; ... Adapted to the Use of Schools, Junior Students at the Universities, and Private Learners, Especially Those who Study Without a Tutor. In Two Volumes, Volume 2Bartlett and Newman ; [etc., etc..], 1814 - Mathematics |
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... ALGEBRA . PAGE GENERAL PROBLEMS . Their Nature and Properties explained 1 Method of registering the Steps of an Operation . . 17 ARITHMETICAL PROGRESSION . Its Rules Algebraically investigated . Problems exercising Arithmetical ...
... ALGEBRA . PAGE GENERAL PROBLEMS . Their Nature and Properties explained 1 Method of registering the Steps of an Operation . . 17 ARITHMETICAL PROGRESSION . Its Rules Algebraically investigated . Problems exercising Arithmetical ...
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... Two or three of the figures in Part X. are very indifferently cut , but it is hoped that there is nothing which can possibly mislead , or affect the demonstrations . 1 AN EASY INTRODUCTION TO THE MATHEMATICS , & c ALGEBRA PAGE.
... Two or three of the figures in Part X. are very indifferently cut , but it is hoped that there is nothing which can possibly mislead , or affect the demonstrations . 1 AN EASY INTRODUCTION TO THE MATHEMATICS , & c ALGEBRA PAGE.
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... ALGEBRA . GENERAL PROBLEMS . ART . 1 . ALGEBRA is divided into two kinds , numeral and literal , both depending on the same principles and employing the same operations . a 2. Numeral algebra is that chiefly used in the solution of ...
... ALGEBRA . GENERAL PROBLEMS . ART . 1 . ALGEBRA is divided into two kinds , numeral and literal , both depending on the same principles and employing the same operations . a 2. Numeral algebra is that chiefly used in the solution of ...
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... algebra , the initial letters a , b , c , d , & c . are usually employed to represent known or given quantities , and the final letters x , y , z , w , v , & c . to represent unknown quantities , whose values are required to be found ...
... algebra , the initial letters a , b , c , d , & c . are usually employed to represent known or given quantities , and the final letters x , y , z , w , v , & c . to represent unknown quantities , whose values are required to be found ...
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... algebra , the science itself on that account is frequently termed analysis , which name however implies other branches besides algebra . * Synthesis ( from the Greek avdeσıç , compositio ) is the converse of analysis . By analysis , as ...
... algebra , the science itself on that account is frequently termed analysis , which name however implies other branches besides algebra . * Synthesis ( from the Greek avdeσıç , compositio ) is the converse of analysis . By analysis , as ...
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Page 320 - If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point of contact a chord be drawn, the angles which this chord makes with the tangent are equal to the angles in the alternate segments.
Page 405 - In any plane triangle, the sum of any two sides is to their difference as the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles is to the tangent of half their difference.
Page 287 - TO a given straight line to apply a parallelogram, which shall be equal to a given triangle, and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle.
Page 66 - If four magnitudes are proportional, the sum of the first and second is to their difference as the sum of the third and fourth is to their difference.
Page 272 - But things which are equal to the same are equal to one another (Ax.
Page 267 - Parallel straight lines are such as are in the same plane, and which being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet.
Page 263 - A plane rectilineal angle is the inclination of two straight lines to one another, which meet together, but are not in the same straight line.
Page 281 - If two triangles have two angles of the one equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and also one side of the one equal to the corresponding side of the other, the triangles are congruent.
Page 294 - If a straight line be bisected, and produced to any point ; the rectangle contained by the whole line thus produced, and the part of it produced, together with the square of half the line bisected, is equal to the square of the straight line which is made up of the half and the part produced.
Page 190 - Take the first term from the second, the second from the third, the third from the fourth, &c. and the remainders will form a new series, called the first order of