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On the Study and Difficulties of Mathematics
by Augustus De Morgan

ISBN: 0486442705
Dover Publications Price: $57.50
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One of the twentieth century's great expositors of science offers insights into some of the more neglected aspects of mathematics, particularly among arithmetical notion and its elementary rules, roots and logarithms, and the principles of algebra and geometry.
Unabridged republication of the edition published by The Open Court Publishing Company, La Salle, Illinois, 1943.

Table of Contents for On the Study and Difficulties of Mathematics
Editor’s Note
Author’s Preface
I. Introductory Remarks on the Nature and Objects of Mathematics
II. On Arithmetical Notion
III. Elementary Rules of Arithmetic
IV. Arithmetical Reactions
V. Decimal Fractions
VI. Algebraical Notion and Principles
VII. Elementary Rules of Algebra
VIII. Equations of the First Degree
IX. On the Negative Sign, etc.
X. Equations of the Second Degree
XI. On Roots in General, and Logarithms
XII. On the Study of Algebra
XIII. On the Definitions of Geometry
XIV. On Geometrical Reasoning
XIV. On Axioms
XVI. On Proportion
XVII. Application of Algebra to the Measurement of Lines, Angles, Proportion of Figures, and Surfaces

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